Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6210
(formerly typ/4190)

	Ἡ γὰρ μεγίστη σου ταπείνωσις, πάτερ,
	τὸ καθάραν τε δάκρυόν σε παγκάλως
	πρὸς ὕψος ἀνύψωσαν ὑπερκοσμίων,
	ἀνώτερον δείξαντα τῶν ἐγκοσμίων.

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	4
Occurrence(s)	[23989] ἡ γὰρ μεγίστη σου \| ταπείνωσις π(άτε)ρ [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 103 [14th c.] (f. 16v) (4 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, 295: "Hierotheus mon. In laudem Symeonis Novi Theologi"
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