Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 33665

	Ἔχρανας, ἄναξ, ἐθνικοῖς σαυτὸν λύθροις,
	καὶ νῦν καθαίρῃ ταῖς Ὀρροντείαις δίναις·
	μικράν δ’ ἀνακώχευσιν εὑρίσκεις πάλιν,
	ὡς ἀναπνυνθεὶς τῷ ζεφύρῳ τῆς Δάφνης.

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: 979
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)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	You defiled yourself, king, with foreign blood and now you purify yourself in the whirlpools of the Orontes. You find a short break again to recover with the zephyr of Daphne (Antioch). 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: 980
Comment	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 27.2-9.
Bibliography	Primary E. Miller, 1881, Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. Historiens grecs (vol. 2), Paris: 166
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 278: "Scholium in Historiam Nicetae Choniatae"
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