Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5762
(formerly typ/3783)

	Ὁμολογῶ, ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ γράφων Συμεώνις,
	εὑρὼν τὴν βίβλον ταύτην τε, ἣν οὐδέποτε εἶδον,
	ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ τῷ καλῷ, τὸ λεγόμενον Μέστρας,
	ὀρέγωμαι τοῦ γράφειν τε τοὺς βίους τῶν ἁγίων
	τὴν δ᾽ ἀρετὴν ἀπέχομαι πόρρω μακρὰν τῶν ἔργων.

Text source	S. Mercati 1970, Lo scriba del codice Ottoboniano greco 441 è il patriarca Constantinopolitano Simeone I, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 2), Bari, 11-15: 12
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Symeon Amathoisios (1426-1450 - 1486) - RGK: III.593 - VGH: 408.A - PLP: XI.27068 (archithytes, hieromonachos of Trapezous < Turkey, patriarches of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, thytes)
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Subject(s)	Symeon Amathoisios (1426-1450 - 1486) - RGK: III.593 - VGH: 408.A - PLP: XI.27068 (archithytes, hieromonachos of Trapezous < Turkey, patriarches of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, thytes)
Tag(s)	Self-presentation
Comment	Text of Mercati (1970: 12) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[23118] Ὁμολογῶ, ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ γράφων Συμεώνις [1477] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Ottob. gr. 441 [1477] (f. 75v) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 529: "Symeon Trapezunt. patr. CP., Subscriptio"
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