Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6889
(formerly typ/4791)

	Ὄλβιά σοι τὰ πρῶτα, τὰ δ' αὖ μέσα φεῦ ὀδυνηρά,
	ὕστατα δ' εὐλογίην ἔσχον ἀγωνοθέτου·
	ἐσθλὰ δ' ἅπαντα μάλιστα, ἐπεί γε τὰ ὕστατα ἐσθλά,
	ἔμπνοε καρτερίης στήλη, Ἰὼβ πολύτλα.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν Ἰώβ. ἡρωελεγεῖα.
Text source	M. De Groote, 2012, Christophori Mitylenaii Versuum Variorum Collectio Cryptensis, Turnhout: 43
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Christophoros of Mytilene < Lesbos < Greece - PBW: Christophoros/13102/
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Subject(s)	Job
Bibliography	Primary S. Mercati 1970, Tre poesie di Cristoforo Mitileneo integrate secondo il codice Vallicelliano Greco B 53, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 481-482: 482
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[25799] ὄλβιά σοι τὰ πρῶτα· τὰ δ' αὖ μέσα φεῦ ὀδυνηρά [14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Vallicelliana B 53 (Martini 12) [1291-1300] (f. 36r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 521: "Christoph. Mytilenaeus, In Iobum"
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