Type 36760

Ὄλβιος ὃς μελιηδέα τήνδε ἀείσοι ἀοιδήν,
νωλεμέως φιλέων ἐνὶ θυμῷ θέσκελα ἔργα,
οὐρανίου βιότοιο ἐρῶν ἠδ’ αἴσιμα ῥέζων,
νώνυμον ἐκ καρδίης ἐθέλων ἐλάαν.
Text source G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 249
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Heureux celui qui chante ce chant doux comme le miel !
Sans cesse en son âme il aime les prodigieuses oeuvres de Dieu,
il désire la vie céleste et agit avec sagesse,
il veut chasser de son coeur ce qui est sans gloire.
Language
French
Source(s)
G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 248
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
Bibliography
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s) [36762] NA [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 204r)
(4 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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