Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31257

	(καὶ) τὸ, τροπαῖ(ον), μὴ, \| τρόπαι(όν) μοι γράφε: \|
	ἂν, ἀττικ(ῶς) γράφ(ης) δε \| ταῦτ(α) σοὶ λέγω:- \|
	ἄλλῃ δὲ γλωσσῶν εἰ γράφεις μοι τοὺς λόγ(ους),:
	δίφθογγ(ον) ἱππεῖς: (καὶ) τρόπαι(όν) μοι γράφε: +

Type(s)	[31254] Καὶ τὸ τροπαῖον μὴ τρόπαιόν μοι γράφε (4 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. 26r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right and lower margin.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Thucydides' Histories 1.63.3, where some other manuscripts have the normalized reading τρόπαιον instead of the Attic form τροπαῖον transmitted by this manuscript (see Luzzatto (1999: 62-63)). Above this word in the main text, the same signe-de renvoi can be found as the one used for the previous verse scholium (inc. Ἱππῆς τις ἐξώρθωσε δίφθογγον γράφων'). Tzetzes didn't repeat this signe-de-renvoi at the beginning of this epigram, which he wrote immediately below the previous one.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0063
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 51 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 62-63, 87 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: 634 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 70
Number of verses	4
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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