Type 36802

Ἐκ βαθέων κράζουσι μυχῶν καρδίας
πρὸς τὸν δυνάστην, τοῦτον οἱ κατειδότες
ἱλασμὸν ὄντα τοῖς κακῶς ἐπταικόσιν.
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) Des profonds replis de leur coeur, ils crient
vers le Prince, ceux qui savent bien que c’est lui
le salut propice pour les malheureux.
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) [36804] NA [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 222r)
(3 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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