Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31271

	+ ψιλ(ὸν) τ(ίς) ἐξώρθω(σ)(εν) ἐνθαδὶ βλέπ(εις),
	χρε(ὼν) το λοιπ(ὸν) (καὶ) τὸ θαρσοῦντ(ες) τόδε,
	θαρσοῦντ(ας) εἰπ(εῖν): (ὡς) γελ(ῶν) τζέτζ(ης) λέγει·
	ἀλλ’ οὐδαμ(ῶς) ἄν(θρωπ)ε, μηδαμ(ῶς) ξέε·
	οὕτω γ(άρ) οἶδ(εν) ἀττικοῦ τρόπου λόγος:
	θαρσοῦντ(ες) ἰέν(αι) ἀντ(ὶ) τ(οῦ) ἴτε γράφ(ειν):-
	τ(ὰς) συγγρ(αφ)(ὰς) κρίν(ειν) (δε) τεχνικῶ τρόπῳ,
	σκύλλου τὲ τοῦδὶ (καὶ) παλαι(ῶν) (καὶ) νέ(ων),
	τζέτζου μόνου χάρισμα: δυσμαθεστάτου
	ἡ φύρσ(ις) ὅνπερ· (καὶ) χυδαιότ(ης) βίου,
	ἐγγωνιῶντ(α) τῇ στοᾷ (καὶ) τῇ θόλῳ,
	σύρει διαμπάξ: ἡ σοφὴ κουστωδία
	ἀνθ οὗπερ, αὐτ(οῖς) οὐδαμ(ῶς) συνειστρέχει·
	ὅτι τὲ φη(σὶ) τεχνικ(ῶς) δέον γράφ(ειν)·
	πεζ(οῖς) ὁμοῦ λόγ(οις) τε (καὶ) τ(οῖς), ἐν μέτρῳ
	φύρ(ειν) (δὲ) μηδ(ὲν) μηδαμοῦ τὰ τ(ῆς) τέχν(ης)·
	πηγαὶ γ(άρ) εἰσι τῶ βίω καλ(...), τέχναι·
	ὅστ(ις) δ’ ἀναιρ(εῖν) τ(οὺς) τεχν(ῶν) λόγ(ους) θέλει
	οὗτο(ς), παρεισφρεῖ κοπρεῶνα τῷ βίῳ
	ὤν, ἐκ συωδ(ῶν)· ἐξ ἀτέχν(ων) βαρβάρ(ων):
	τοῖος τ(ίς) ἐσμὸ(ς), ἐξανορθοῖ τ(ὰς) βίβλ(ους)
	οἷος τ(ίς) ἐξώρθω(σεν), (καὶ) τ(ὴν), ἡροδότου·
	τ(ήν), εἰς ὁμήρου τ(ὴν) γον(ὴν) γεγραμμ(έν)(ην)
	ἰων(ι)(κ)(ῆς) πᾶν συγγραφ(ῆς) μετατρέπ(ων)
	(ὡς) πρὸ(ς) τὸ δοξ(αν) οἷ· σοφῷ πεφυκότ(...)
	ἐπ’ ἠμισεί(ας) εἰ γ(αρ) ἦν γεγραμμ(έν)(ον)·
	εἴτ’ οὖν ἀπικνεῖτ(αι) δε· (καὶ) τὰ τοιάδε
	εἰς, φῖ σοφ(ῶς) μετῆγ(εν)· ὀρθ(ῶν) τ(ὴν) βί(β)λ(ον):
	ἄλλα τὲ πολλὰ μ(ὴ) συν(εὶς), ἀποξέ(ων):
	κἀνθαῦτα, κἀνταῦθ(α): (δε) ποι(ῶν) ὀρθίαν

Type(s)	[31268] Ψιλόν τις ἐξώρθωσεν ἐνθαδὶ βλέπεις (30 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. 45r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin. The scholium is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links it to the words 'προφέρεται' and 'θαρσοῦντες' in the main text (Thuc. 1.123.1).
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Thucydides' Histories 1.123.1, the speech of the Corinthians to the Spartans and their allies.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 BC) Homer (8th c. BC) John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/ Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0101
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 89-90 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 46-58, 90 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: 75 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 71-73 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, n. 28
Number of verses	30
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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