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377 A BISHOP AND HIS LADY : AP 16.19 BY BARRY BALDWIN Lemmatised vaguely by Planudes as F-ig 6aEXyEig, the precise context of this anonymous poem has not been fully elucidated by editors of the Anthology. Beckby, for instance, limits himself largely to the observation (in view of the text, no great feat of percipience!) that it constitutes "Verspottung eines Bischofs."I In connecting it with Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, Jacobs and Paton were on the right lines, but they do not tell their readers as much as they might. 2 At the third session3 of the Council of Chalcedon, October 13, 451, Dioscorus was accused amongst many other things of a sexual liaison with Pansophia Oreine, a femme fatale said to have been xEpifl6qTog - albeit not now sufficiently so to gain inclusion in the second volume of PLRE !4 According to the accuser, Ischyrion the deacon, their relationship was the subject of a popular song in wide circulation. Our poem clearly belongs to this campaign, though it is unnoticed by the most recent and best accounts of the tribulations of Dioscorus. As a poem, it is an accomplished little piece. For illustration of the opening greeting, Boissonade
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1981
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