Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31357

༶ κλῇθρ(ον)· κ(α)τεκλῄσθησ(αν) ἀττικῷ τρόπῳ,:
τζέτζου φρον(ῶν) π(ᾶς) τ(οῖς) λόγ(οις) πεπεισμένος,:
δίφθογγ(ον) οὐ γράψει(ας)· ἀλλ' ἦτα μόν(ον):-
τ(οὺς) βουβάλ(ους) δ’ ἔασ(ον) δυσμαθεστάτ(ους),:
ἁπανταχοῦ δίφθογγα ταυταῒ γράφ(ειν):
οἳ, τὸ σκότο(ς), φῶς: ὡς τὸ φ(ῶς), φασὶ σκότο(ς):
κίρκ(ης) τραφέντ(ες) χοιρεῶσι τ(ῆς), νέ(ας) +
Type(s) [31354] Κλῇθρον, κατεκλῄσθησαν ἀττικῷ τρόπῳ (7 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. 133v
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 'κληίσειν' in the main text (Thuc. 4.8.7).
Contextual information The epigram is written below Thucydides' Histories 4.8.7.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Image source(s) https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0278
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 73
Number of verses 7
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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