Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31383

	γλώσσ(ης) νόησ(ον) ἀττ(ικ)(ῆς), (εἶναι) τόδε·
	ψωμοῦ φαγ(εῖν) τε. (καὶ) λαβ(εῖν) ἀνδρ(ῶν) λέγ(ειν)·
	οἴν(ων) πι(εῖν) τε· (καὶ) τὰ, τοιούτου τρόπου:·
	μὴ δ’ αὖ σόλοικ(ον)· μηδαμ(ῶς) νόει τόδε:-

Type(s)	[31381] Γλώσσης νόησον Ἀττικῆς εἶναι τόδε (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. 183v
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin. The scholium is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links it to the word 'κομίσασθαι' in the main text (Thuc. 5.15.1).
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Thucydides' Histories 5.15.1 and is followed by another Tzetzian verse scholium.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0378
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 15 K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 295 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 114-115
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(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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