Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2403
(formerly typ/480)

	Νῦν δὴ μάλιστα σοῖς προσεσχηκὼς λόγοις
	ἐξεπλάγην σου τὸν πολὺν νοῦν, παμμάκαρ,
	ὡς πανταχοῦ φθάνοντα καὶ πρὸς τὰς λύσεις
	πάσας ἀπαντήσαντα τῶν προβλημάτων,
	οὕτως ἄριστα καὶ σοφώτατα σφόδρα.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Maximos the Confessor (580 - 13/08/662) - PBE: 5416 - PMBZ: 16096: "Personenkennziffer: 4921/add."
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Comment	The epigram also occurs in the 16th-century (a. 1520) manuscript Vat. gr. 505 (f. 68r).
Bibliography	Primary R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 350 C. Giannelli, 1950, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1485-1683 (vol. 5), Vatican City: 32
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[17871] νῦν δὴ μάλιστα σοῖς προσεσχηκὼς λόγοις [12th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1502 [11th-12th c.] (f. 82v) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Nina Sietis, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 494: "In S. Maximum Conf."
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