Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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Type 6109
(formerly typ/4094)

	Μυστηριώδη καὶ ξένην ὁρῶν θέαν,
	νοῦν βλέμμ' ἄνω μέν, χεῖρα δ' αὖ μύστην φέρει,
	ὃν βροντᾷ βροντῆς θεολογῶν παῖς πᾶσιν.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Comment	In an eighteenth-century manuscript, on which Kominis (1951: 278) relies, the epigram counts 9 lines. Actually, from line 4 onwards a new poem begins, according to an older witness, inc. 'ἔφησε συνάναρχον, ὁ βροντῆς γόνος'.
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined N. Bees, 1967, Τὰ χειρόγραφα των Μετεώρων : κατάλογος περιγραφικός των χειρογράφων κωδίκων των αποκειμένων εις τας μονὰς των Μετεώρων (vol. 1), Athens: 539 A. Kominis 1951, Συναγωγὴ ἐπιγραμμάτων εἰς τοὺς τέσσαρας Εὐαγγελιστάς, Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (EEBS), 21, 254-279: 278 DBBE (last accessed: 2026-08-11).
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[24998] Μυστηριώδη ξένην ὁρῶν θέαν [15th c.] ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Ω 16 (Eustratiades 1826) [15th c.] (f. 96r) (3 verses) [23765] Μυστηριώδη ξένην ὁρῶν θέαν [14th c.] METEORA - Mone Metamorphoseos 543 [14th c.] (f. 90v) (3 verses)
Related type(s)	[6645] Ἔφησε συνάναρχον ὁ βροντῆς γόνος (11 verses) (Same cycle)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 476: "In s. Ioannem evang."
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.

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