Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5904
(formerly typ/3915)

Ζῆλος Φινεὲς καὶ φόνος δεινὸς λάγνων.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 436-437
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Phinehas
Tag(s)	Description of an image Miniature Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Der Eifer des Pinchas und der schreckliche Mord an den Lüstlingen. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 437
Bibliography
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[23266] ζῆλος φινεὲς καὶ φόνος \| δειν(ῶν) \| λάγν(ων) [12th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 602 [12th c.] (f. 186v) (1 verse) [26865] (...)λος φινεὲς· καὶ φόνος \| (...)εινὸς λάγνων [12th c.] IZMIR - Euaggelike Schole A-01 [12th c.] ((unsure) f. 174r) (1 verse) [26864] ζῆλος φινεὲς κ(αὶ) φόνο(ς) δεινὸ(ς) \| λάγνων [1101-1150] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 746 [1101-1150] (f. 359v) (1 verse)
Acknowledgements	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	BEiÜ IV, VAT45 Vassis ICB 2005, 283: "In imaginem deletus Madianitarum (Num. 25.1–18)"
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