Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3928
(formerly typ/2017)

	Ματθαῖος εἴργει τῶν Ἰουδαίων θράσος
	ὥσπερ χαλινοῖς πέντε φιμώσας λόγοις.
	ὅστις δὲ τούτων τὴν ἐπίρρητον πλάνην,
	πλάνην ἀτεχνῶς, ἐξελέγξει τῷ λόγῳ,
	ἄρδην ἁπάσας συγκαθεῖλεν αἱρέσεις·
	μήτηρ γὰρ αὐτῶν ἡ θεοκτόνων ἔρις.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Matthew Blastares - PLP: II.2808
Tag(s)	Polemic Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined H. Coxe, 1969, Greek Manuscripts, Oxford: 606 S. Mercati 1970, A proposito dei "Testimonies" di Rendel Harris, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 239-252: 239
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[21035] Ματθαῖος εἴργει τῶν ἰουδαί(ων) θράσος [14th-15th c.] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4800 (olim O.77) [14th-15th c.] (f. 104r) (6 verses) [19938] Ματθαῖος εἴργει τῶν Ἰουδαίων θράσος [14th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Arch. Seld. B 49 [14th c.] (f. 100r) (6 verses) [21661] Ματθαῖος εἴργει τῶν Ἰουδαίων θράσος [15th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 428 [15th c.] () (6 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, 448: "In Matthaei Blastaris librum contra Iudaeos"
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