Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 30895

	τζέτζου

	+ (καὶ) σὺ δὲ μαρκελλῖνε, τὰ ψευδῆ γράφ(εις):
	ἀναξαγόρ(αν) εὐριπίδου διδάσκαλ(ον),:
	ὄντα παλαι(ὸν) πῶς λέγ(εις) θουκυδίδου
	ὁ τοῦ, ξύλου παῖς, προχρονώτερο(ς), τούτου:
	οὗ συγγράφοντο(ς) π(αῖς) τελ(ῶν) θουκυδίδ(ης),:
	ἀκηκο(ὼς) ἔκλαυσε, τ(ῶν) συγγραμμ(ά)τ(ων):
	ὁ δ’ ἡρόδοτο(ς), φησὶ πατρὶ τῶ τούτου, τάδε:
	ἔνθουν ὀλουρε π(αῖς) ὁ σὸ(ς), ψυχ(ὴν) ἔχει:
	οὗτος χρόν(οις) δ’ ἦν, ὑστερ(ῶν) εὐριπίδου
	εὐριπίδ(ης) δὲ ξερξικ(οῖς) ἦν ἐν χρόν(οις):
	εὐριπίδου πρῶτο(ς) δε, π(ῶς) θουκυδίδ(ης):
	ἔτι τελ(ῶν) π(αῖς), συγγραφαῖς τ(αῖς) ἡροδότου:
	καθυστερούσ(αις), τ(ῶν) χρόν(ων) εὐριπίδου: +

Type(s)	[30861] Καὶ σὺ δέ, Μαρκελλῖνε, τὰ ψευδῆ γράφεις (13 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1146-1155
Manuscript	HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin in three columns, to be read horizontally. The scholium is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links it to the word 'Ἀναξαγόρου' in the main text (Marc. vit. Thuc. 22).
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Markellinos' Vita Thucydidis and reacts to his statement that Anaxagoras was one of Thucydides' teachers. In the left margin, Tzetzes added another verse: 'Ξύλου παῖς ὁ Ἡρόδοτος πρότερος Θουκυδίδου'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC) Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC) Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 BC) Marcellinus (6th c.) Thucydides (5th c. BC) Xerxes I (519 BC - 465 BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0017
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 434 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 70-73, 86 T. Mészáros 2013, Byzantine Metrical Scholia on Thucydides, in P. Fodor, G. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács (eds.), More modoque: die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident; Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Budapest, 67-76: 74 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 68-69 M. Luzzatto 2000, Note inedite di Giovanni Tzetzes e restauro di antichi codici alla fine del XIII secolo: il problema del Laur. 70,3 di Erodoto, in G. Prato (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca Cremona, 4 - 10 ottobre 1998 (vol. 2), Firenze, 633-654: 635
Number of verses	13
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) 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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