Ζοφεράς τρικυμίας. St. Anatolius [Christ Stilling the Tempest.] The Very Rev. S. G. Hatherly, in his ed. of Dr. Neale's Hys. of the Eastern Church, 1882 (4th ed.) says—
"These Stichera are not in use In the Church Service. They are probably taken by Dr. Neale from the work of some German antiquarian. Sundays of the First Tone are the 1st after Easter, and the 2nd, 10th, 18th and every eighth following Sunday after Pentecost until the Sunday next before Easter."
It is more probable, however, that Dr. Neale got his text from the "dateless Constantinopolitan book" from whence he said he got his "Art thou weary" (see
p. 68, ii) than that he secured it from the work of some German antiquarian." Dr. Neale's
tr., "Fierce was the wild billow," was pub. in his
Hys. of the Eastern Church, 1862, in 3 st. of 8 l., and headed "Stichera for a Sunday of the First Tone." It was included in the
Parish H. Bk., 1863; and subsequently in numerous collections in G. Britain and America. In some hymnals it reads, "Fierce the wild billow was," and in others "Fierce was the Galilee;" but Neale's text is that which is most extensively known.
[J. J.]
