Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 33621

	Ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ, πρὸς ψυχὴν θείαν λέγεις,
	ἣ συμπερατοῖ σὰς καλὰς παραιφάσεις·
	ὄντως τὸ λοιπὸν εὐγενὴς σὺ τυγχάνεις,
	κἂν ἀλλοεθνοῦς ἐκ γένους, ἀλλ’ οὐ τρόπου.

Text source	J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 972
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John Axouch - PBW: Ioannes/293/ (domestikos, sebastos) Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Noble Axuch, you speak to a divine soul, which accomplishes your good advices. Thus, you are truly well born, even if from a foreign nation, but not foreign manners. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 972
Comment	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 11.70-82.
Bibliography
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola 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
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