Type 36799

Ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τις τοῦ θεοῦ πεφραγμένος
μηδὲν πτοείσθω προσβολὰς ἐναντίων,
κἂν προσβαλεῖν ὁρμῶσι τούτῳ πολλάκις.
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: 251
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) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Psalter
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Que celui qui est couvert des commandements de Dieu
ne se laisse pas impressionner par les attaques des adversaires,
même s’ils lancent souvent des attaques contre lui.
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: 250
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221v), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [36801] NA [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 221v)
(3 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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