Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6206
(formerly typ/4186)

	Πιὼν κρατῆρα τῆς καλῆς θεωρίας,
	ἐφ' ἣν ἀνῆλθες ἐς ἀπαθείας, μάκαρ,
	χρησμοὺς ἀναπνεῖν ἴσχυσας ζωηφόρους,
	δι' ὧν προφαίνεις τὰς καλὰς ἡμῖν τρίβους·
	τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν ἀρετὴ καλὸν μέγα·
	ὁ Νικόλαος ταῦτα τῷ σεβασμίῳ.

Title(s)	Στίχοι ἕτεροι Νικολάου Κερκύρων γραφέντες κατὰ τὸ ,ςχλδ' ἔτος
Text source	A. Kambylis, 1976, Symeon Neos Theologos, Hymnen, Berlin: 31
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Nikolaos of Kerkyra < Greece (12th c.)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Nikolaos of Kerkyra < Greece (12th c.) Symeon the Theologian (949-1022) - PMBZ: 29643: "Personenkennziffer: 27488"
Tag(s)	Address to the author Praise of the author
Bibliography	Primary J. Koder 1966, Die Hymnen Symeons, des neuen Theologen, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinischen Gesellschaft, 15, 153-199: 189 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 187, n. 94
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[23984] Πιὼν κρατῆρα τῆς καλῆς θεωρί(ας) [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 103 [14th c.] (f. 15v) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 622: "Nicolaus ep. Corcyrae, Versus scripti anno 6634 in laudem Symeonis Novi Theologi"
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