| Αἰὼν ὁ μακρὸς ὥσπερ ἄνθη τοὺς λόγους | |
| Ἁπανταχοῦ γῆς ἔσχεν ἐσκεδασμένους, | |
| Ἀνθοῦντας, οὐ πέμποντας εὔπνοον χάριν. | |
| Τὰ νῦν δὲ τούτοις εὐστεφὴς Κωνσταντῖνος | |
| Δρέψας, ἀγείρας ἐμμελεῖ μουσουργίᾳ | |
| Προύθηκε πᾶσιν θελκτικὴν εὐοσμίαν, | |
| Ὅσοις λόγου μέτεστιν, εὐώδεις λόγους. | |
| Ὅν τοῖς λόγοις στέφωμεν ὡς λόγων φίλον. | |
| Ἀσυγκρίτως γὰρ ἐν μέδουσιν ἐκπρέπει, | |
| Λάμπων, προφαίνων χρηστότητα τοῦ κράτους | |
| Γίγας φεραυγὴς ὥσπερ ἡλίου φάος | |
| Ἐχθροῖς ἅπασιν, εὐνόοις θ’ ὑπηκόοις. | |
| Οὐκοῦν βοάτω πρὸς θεὸν πᾶς τις μέροψ· | |
| Τιθωνὸν αὐτὸν δεῖξον ἄλλον ἐν χρόνοις, | |
| Ὡς ἂν τὰ λῷστα τῷ βίῳ συνεισφέροι. |
| Type(s) | [5718] Αἰὼν ὁ μακρὸς ὥσπερ ἄνθη τοὺς λόγους (15 verses) |
| Text source | T. Büttner-Wobst, 1906, Excerpta historica iussu imp. Constantini Porphyrogeniti confecta. Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis (vol. 2.1), Berolini: 3 |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Date | 11th c. |
| Manuscript | TOURS - Bibliothèque Municipale 980 [951-975] |
| Person(s) | |
| Contextual information | Németh (2018: 63): "It was copied directly after the proem and the list of contents, perhaps on the last page of the initial double-leaf of the deluxe manuscript, although the text on it survives only in two transcriptions from the early seventeenth century". |
| Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
| Genre(s) | |
| Subject(s) | Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (May 905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734" |
| Comment | The epigram is no longer preserved in this manuscript, because some of its folios have been destroyed (see Németh (2018: 270), Büttner-Wobst (1906: XXIII), Collon (1905: 704)). Büttner-Wobst reprinted the poem by the edition of Valesius 1634 (Büttner-Wobst (1906: 1, 3)). |
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| Number of verses | 15 |
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