Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6209
(formerly typ/4189)

	Τὴν γῆν λιπὼν ἔτεινας ὄμμα τοῦ νόου
	πρὸς οὐρανούς, εἶδές τε τοῦ πρώτου νόου
	τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο μυστικῇ θεωρίᾳ·
	ὅθεν κατεπλούτησας ἐν θεωρίαις,
	θεωρίαις δὲ πάμπαν ὑπερκοσμίους.

Title(s)	Ἕτεροι Ἱεροθέου μοναχοῦ ἑτέρου παρὰ τὸν γράφοντα ἐν τῷ τέλει
Text source	A. Kambylis, 1976, Symeon Neos Theologos, Hymnen, Berlin: 33
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Hierotheos (monachos, presbyteros of the Monastery of Horaia Pege < Bithynia < Asia Minor < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	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: 190 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 187, n. 94
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[23988] Τὴν γῆν λιπὼν ἔτεινας ὄμ\|μα τοῦ νόου [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 103 [14th c.] (f. 16v) (5 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, 730: "Hierotheus mon. In laudem Symeonis Novi Theologi"
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