Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24505
(formerly occ/8468)

	θουκυδίδης ἐλέλιζεν ἑὸν ἠνδὲ νοῆσαι·
	οἷάπερ ἱστορίης δημηγόρον ἦθος ὑφαίνων·
	δεξιτερὴν γὰρ ἀνέσχε μετάρσιον ὡς πρὶν ἀείδων·
	σπάρτης πικρὸν ἄρηα καὶ αὐτῶν κεκροπιδάων·
	ἑλλάδος ἀμητῆρα πολυθρέπτοιο τιθήνης.

Type(s)	[3245] Θουκυδίδης δ’ ἐλέλιζεν ἑὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 126 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 188v
Contextual information	Written at the end of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. It precedes another epigram.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Athenai Sparta Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Comment	Mercati-De' Cavalieri (1923: 152) give only the incipit.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.126
Bibliography	Primary G. Mercati, P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1923, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1-329 (vol. 1), Rome: 155 A. Kleinlogel, K. Alpers (eds.), 2019, Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem. Scholia vetustiora et Lexicon Thucydideum Patmense, Berlin: 8, 155
Number of verses	5
Related occurrence(s)	[21006] θουκυδίδης δ’ ἐλέλιζεν ἑὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι [1461] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 72 sup. [1461] (f. 2r) (5 verses) (5/5) [21066] θουκυδίδης ἔλεξεν ἑὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι [1426-1475] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1636 [1426-1475] (f. IIv) (5 verses) (5/5) [33173] θουκυδίδης ἐλέλιζεν· ἐὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 255 [11th c.] (f. 292r) (5 verses) (5/5) [19087] Θουκυδίδης ἔλεξεν ἑὸν νόον, ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 89 [15th c.] (f. 393r) (5 verses) (5/5) [25137] θουκυδίδης ἔλεξεν ἑὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 91 [15th c.] (f. 230r) (5 verses) (5/5)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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