Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2359
(formerly typ/428)

	Ἐκ παλαιοῦ ἤθροισε ῥήτορος γλώττης
	ἀκροθίνια μαρτύρων, ἀποστόλων
	πάντων προφητῶν, δικαίων καὶ ὁσίων
	ἀριστεύματα κατὰ τοῦ ἀντιπάλου
	Κωνσταντῖνος νέος, ὃς ποθήσας τούτων
	τὰς ἀριστείας ἄνθεσιν ἀπανθίσαι
	βιβλίοις τεῦξε παγκάλλους, εὐμεγέθεις,
	ἤνθισεν, ἐποίκιλεν, ἤδη κατέχει.
	Ἀλλʹ ὦ ἄναξ πάντων τε καὶ στεφοδότα,
	δώρησαι τούτῳ τῆς στάσεως ἐκείνων.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (May 905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Tag(s)	Dedication Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Acconcia Longo 2008, El poema introductorio en dodecasílabos bizantinos, in F. D'Aiuto (ed.), El «Menologio de Basilio II», Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1613. Libro de estudios con ocasión de la edición facsímil, Città del Vaticano, Atenas, Madrid, 77-90: 89 M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 354 J. Mossay, L. Hoffmann, 1996, Repertorium Nazianzenum. Orationes. Textus Graecus. Codices Civitatis Vaticanae (vol. 5), Paderborn: 81
Number of verses	10
Occurrence(s)	[16983] Ἔκπαλ' ἥθροισε παλαιοῦ ῥήτορος γλώττης [1076-1100] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 815 [1076-1100] (f. 1v) (10 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 210: "In menologium"
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/2359

Last modified: 2026-01-19.