Type 36851

Ὕψιστον ὕψου, τοῦτον εὑρὼν ἐν μάχῃ
νοουμένῃ πρόμαχον ἢ συνεργάτην.
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: 255
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s)
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) Chante très haut le Très-Haut, quand tu auras découvert
qu’il lutte pour toi et qu’il t’aide dans la lutte spirituelle.
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: 254
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) [36853] υψιστ(ον) υψου τουτ(ον) ευρ(...) εν μα(...) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 238r)
(2 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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