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Type 4207
(formerly typ/2299)

Κοίρανος ὑψιμέδων θεοῦ υἱὸς αὐτογεννήτωρ
ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος ἐπ' αἶαν ἀνώρουσε
κούρης ἐξ ἀπειράνδρου εἰδέην ἀνδρομέην φορέσας,
ὄφρ' ὀλλυμένοισι δυσνομίαις Βελίαρ μερόπεσσιν
ὄλβον ὀπάσῃ εἰς αἰθέρ' ἐλεύθερον ἀμβιβάσας,
οὗ δὴ ἔπεα σαόμβρωτα ἐξ ἀφθίτων στομάτων
ἱέντα πινυτῶν διὰ γλωσσῶν πυριφθόγγων ὀπαδῶν
θυμῷ ἱμερόεντι τλήμων συνάγειρα ὧδε τεύξας
Χριστοφόρος Ναζιραίων ἠδὲ Λευιτῶν δύσχρηστος ἄγαν
ἐὼν ὁμειρόμενος εἵνεκα τῶνδε λήψεσθαι λύτρον
ἀμπλακιῶν μεγίστων πλῆθος ἀπειρέσιον.
Λάβε δὲ πέρας πυκτίδι ἐν ἑξάσι χιλιάδων
ἐτέων κοσμογενείας δεκάδι τε πρὸς τέσσαρσι
πεντακοσίοις θ' ἅμα, ἐν ἰνδίκτῳ τετάρτῃ.
Title(s) Ἡρωϊκοὶ εἰς τὸ ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου τέλος
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Christophoros (11th c.) - VGH: 431.C - PMBZ: 23478: "Personenkennziffer: 21325"
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Christophoros (11th c.) - VGH: 431.C - PMBZ: 23478: "Personenkennziffer: 21325"
Tag(s) Completion of the book
Critical Notes Tit. οἱ ἡρωϊκοί Gott.
Bibliography

Primary

M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 287

Bibliography category to be determined

S. Mercati 1970, Intorno ai versi sugli otto echi e sui quattro Evangelisti contenuti nel codice del Monte Athos 4279 (Iviron 159) del secolo XV, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 626-636: 635
Number of verses 14
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Renaat Meesters, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 412: "In s. evangelium"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.
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