Type 36860

Τὸν αἰνετόν σου δεσπότην αἴνει λόγοις,
ἅπας ὁ σωθεὶς τοῦδε θείᾳ δυνάμει.
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) Adressez en paroles un éloge à votre Maître qui est digne d’éloge,
vous tous qui avez été sauvés par sa divine puissance !
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) [36862] τὸν αἰνετόν σου δεσπότ(ην) αἴνει λόγοις [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 242r)
(2 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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