Type 36826

Ἐκ τῶν πονηρῶν πράξεων ἐπιστρέφων,
τὸ σεπτὸν ᾆδε καὶ θεῖον τοῦτο μέλος.
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: 253
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)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Que celui qui s’est repenti de ses actes mauvais
chante cet air auguste et divin !
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: 252
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221bisr), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s) [36828] ἐκ τῶ(ν) πονηρ(ῶν) πράξεων ἐπιστρέφων [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 228r)
(2 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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