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Author(s): K. Mitsakis
Source: Glotta, 43. Bd., 1./2. H. (1965), pp. 171-197
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K. Mitsakis, The Vocabulary of Romanos the Melodist 171
Table of Abbreviations
I. TEXTS
M A.a.O.
2) A.a.O. Zum Venetischen vgl. jetzt auch vom gleichen Verfasser die
Venetischen Personennamen (Wiesbaden 1961).
3) Vgl. etwa C. de Simone, Kratylos 7 (1962) 126ff., ferner H. Kronasser,
Zum Stand der lllyristik, Linguistique balkanique 4 (1962) 9ff.
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II. LITERATURE
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Introduction
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*) K. Krumbacher, Die Ak
Sitzungsberichte der philo
Akad. der Wiss. zu Munchen, 1903, 551 f.
2) The problem of the genuineness of Romanos' hagiological canticles is
still under discussion. N. Livadaras in "To IlQÔP?.r)[ia rfjç rvrjmérrjroç rœv
' AyioXoyvx&v "Ypvœv rov Pcofiavov (Athens D. Phil, thesis published as sup-
plement to vol. IV of N. B. Tomadakis' edition of Romanos' work, Athens,
1959) offers little new evidence. But to anybody at all familiar with ge-
nuine Romanos there is no doubt that P. Maas was right in considering
nearly all the hagiological canticles spurious, s. Die Chronologie der Hymnen
des Romanos, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 15 (1906) 36 f., also 31 (1931) 430,
38 (1938) 156 - 157. In my treatise "T%e Language of Romanos the Melodist"
(Oxford D. Phil, thesis, 1964, unpublished) I used linguistic criteria in an
attempt to distinguish the genuine from the spurious canticles. The result
was negative. With the exception of a limited number of phenomena of
minor importance occuring only in the spurious canticles, the language
of Romanos is more or less homogeneous in all compositions that have
come down to us under his name. This suggests that the hagiological can-
ticles do not belong to a much later period; they should be attributed to a
period when hagiological literature was nourishing and popular, possibly to
the seventh or eighth centuries, in any case before the decline of the kon-
taktion as a literary genre, s. P. Maas, Dos Kontaktion, Byzantinische Zeit-
schrift 19 (1910) 289, P. Maas - C. A. Trypanis, Sancti Romani Melodi Can-
tica, Oxford, 1963, pp. XIV- XV, also H. G. Beck, Kirche und theologische
Literatur im byzantinischen Reich, Mûnchen 1959, p. 265.
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ânoGTaaiâÇœ, to be indigna
cnaaiâÇei 54.*£.42. Cf. S
1073 D.
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ÀoyxiàÇ co, to pierce with spears: AoyxiàÇojbiai nielv xfjç nXevqac aov
[(33)71.fcç.81]. Cf. A. Thorn. A 164 (p. 278.4).
Àoxoç, r\, woman in childbed: xrjv àyafiov Xoxov ôeïÇai 37. £.2. Cf.
Diosc. 3.4, Moer. p. 247 P, Ath. (P.G. 25) 956 C, s. also PGL s.v.
Aoxovç.
XvxYjç,ô, one who looses, deliverer : Xvxr\v xfjç <p&0Qâç 2. a. 7 2, 20. id. 1 2.
Cf. Just. Const. 5, where the word in the pi, denotes the law stu-
dents in the fourth year of their studies.
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v cLQKi⠜, to be frightene
app]. Cf. Ath. (P.G. 25)9
*vé(pe?.ov, xo, cloud: wxxoç â
Cf. MGr. vecpalov, s.v. C
dides, Herakleion, 1915)
^vrjcfxevaijiioç, -ov, fastin
Hy.42.
*vinxonoôé(o, to wash the feet: 6 fxovoyevrjç naqiaxaxo vinxoTtoà&ïv
xaxeTzeiyojLisvoç 1 7 . ç. 2 ■ *.
*vo(foxQipéco, to be expert, practiced in curing sicknesses: ol en
xcov vocroxQifiovvxcDV ([54)60.^.51].
voaxoç, d, flavour, taste: xov vôaxov xov deinvov aov èv xq> axo/Liaxl
jLiov ëxco 18.C. I3. Gf. Hesch. s.v.
vvyjurj, r\, pricking: Xoyxrjg vvy/Ltrjv 30. P. II. 5. Cf. Plut. Ant. 86.
*vvxxi<pQcov, -ov, malignant: fjv ô svae^rjç ô oQÏÏQtoç âaxfjQ fiéaov
xûv wxxKpQovœv (after Krumbacher's correction, s. Miscellen zu
Bomanos, Abhandlungen der philos.-philol. Klasse der K. Bayer.
Akad. der Wiss., 1909, XXIV. III, 98, the text giving wxxicpQé-
vœv) [(36) 75.0. 5 2].
vvjbtcpoaxoÀlÇco, to dress the bride for the wedding: vvixcpoaxoXiaac
xrjv êxxXrjalav grj/biacnv, ov aftaQàyôoiç [(53)68./. l1]. Cf. Str. 6.I.8,
Bas. S. (P.G. 85) 501 C.
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