Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 30518

	Καὶ Βάρδας ὧδε τὴν τελευταίαν μένει
	σάλπιγγος ἠχήν, ὃς στρατηγῶν ἐν μάχαις
	κατεστρατήγει καὶ παθῶν καὶ βαρβάρων·
	ἀλλ' ἡ νόσος τὸν ἄνδρα βαρβαρουμένη
	πρὸς τὴν ὁδὸν κατέσχε τὴν ἐναντίαν,
	καὶ τοὺς νεογνοὺς παῖδας ὠρφανισμένους,
	βιοκλοποῦσα καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἥβης, ἔχει.
	ὃν σύμβιος λαβοῦσα τῆς Κρήτης ἄπνουν
	ἐκ τῶν πόνων ἀνῆψε πῦρ καί, δακρύοις
	λούσασα, θάπτει, σύμβολον σωτηρίας
	τῶν εἰκόνων γράψασα τοὺς σεπτοὺς τύπους.

Title(s)	Στίχοι εἰς τὴν τελευτὴν Φωκᾶ τοῦ Βάρδα
Text source	I. Ševčenko 1969-1970, Poems on the Deaths of Leo VI and Constantine VII in the Madrid Manuscript of Scylitzes, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 23-24, 187-228: 191
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John of Melitene < Cappadocia (951-1000) - PMBZ: 25315: "Personenkennziffer: 23161" (metropolites of Melitene < Cappadocia)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Bardas (10th c.) - PMBZ: 22934: "Personenkennziffer: 20781"
Tag(s)	Death Miniature
Bibliography	Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 312-314
Number of verses	11
Occurrence(s)	[30549] καὶ βάρδας ὧδε τὴν τελευταίαν μ(έν)ει [12th c.] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional Vitr. 26-2 (olim N.2) [12th c.] (f. 182v) (11 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Nina Vanhoutte Contributor(s) 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, 373: "In obitum Bardae Phocae"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.