Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2528
(formerly typ/616)

	Ὅστις βούλεται τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο βλέψαι,
	Ὀφείλει ταῦτα φυλάττειν ἐν καρδίᾳ:
	Παθῶν σαρκικῶν καὶ λογισμῶν ἀρχείων,
	Ὄρκου τε παντὸς, θυμοῦ καὶ τραχῆς δὲ,
	Καὶ περισπασμοῦ καὶ τῆς μνησικακίας,
	Καὶ τοῦ μὴ κρῖναι τὸ σύνοχον ἀνθρώπους,
	Εἶναι δὲ αὐτὸν λογικὸν καὶ τοὺς φρένας,
	Καθαρὸν τε τῶν σαρκικῶν μολυσμάτων,
	Πρᾶον, ταπεινὸν, ἡσύχιον ὑπάρχειν,
	Ἐξαγγελτικὸν καὶ τῆς εἰρήνης τέκνον,
	Ἐγκρατῆ εἶναι βρωμάτων καὶ πομάτων,
	Καὶ τῇ προσευχῇ σχολάζειν ἀνενδότως,
	Ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις, ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος ἔχειν,
	Τὸ κεφάλαιον ἀρετῶν, τὴν ἀγάπην.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Chrysostom (saint)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Address to the reader
Comment	Text from Pitra (1862: II,170).
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined H. Coxe, 1969, The collection of the Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici, Oxford: 19 P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1927, Codices Graeci Chisiani et Borgiani, Rome: 63 J. Pitra, 1868, Iuris ecclesiastici Graecorum historia et monumenta (vol. 2), Rome: 170
Number of verses	14
Occurrence(s)	[20490] Ὅςτις βούλεται τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο βλέψαι [15th c.] ATHOS - Mone Iberon 713 [15th c.] () (2 verses) [20004] ὅστις βούλεται τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο βλέψαι [1326-1375] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Canonici gr. 16 [1326-1375] (f. 87r) (14 verses) [18049] Ὅστις βούλεται τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο βλέψαι [1266] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Chigi gr. R V 33 (gr. 27) [1265-1266] (f. 331r) (14 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Renaat Meesters The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 553: "Ioann. Chrysostomus*, Versus paraenetici in methodum orationis"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.