Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31387

	πολὺς πόνος (δε), (καὶ) τονίζ(ειν) (καὶ) γρ(άφ)(ειν): \|
	(καὶ) τ(ῆς), ἑκάστ(ης) ἡμέρ(ας) περιδρόμῳ·
	(καί)περ νοσοῦντα δυσπνοωτάτ(ην) νόσ(ον),:
	φύλλ(ων) ἀναγνῶν(αι) γε τοιασδὶ ιώ,
	διπλῆν διεκτρέχ(ειν) με πεντηκοντ(...) \|
	ὁθεν, στράτωρσι τ(ὴν) βιβλογρ(άφου) κόπρ(ον),:
	ἐατέ(ον) νῦν ἐκφορ(εῖν) τὲ (καὶ) ξέ(ειν) +

Type(s)	[31384] Πολὺς πόνος δὲ καὶ τονίζειν καὶ γράφειν (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. 183v
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the left and lower margins.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Thucydides' Histories 5.15.1 and is preceded by another Tzetzian verse scholium.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0378
Bibliography	Primary 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: 25-28, 115 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: 71-72 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 74 M. Luzzatto 1998, Leggere i classici nella biblioteca imperiale: note tzetziane su antichi codici, Quaderni di Storia, 48, 69-86: 77 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
Number of verses	7
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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