Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31395

	ὑποστροφ(ὴν) γίνωσκε τὸ σχῆμα τόδε: \|
	τὸ δ’ αὖ σκοτειν(ὸν) (καὶ) π(αρά)ξυλον λόγου, \|
	ἄλλ(οις) παρ(εὶς) ῥ(ή)τορσ(ιν) αἰν(εῖν) ἀσκόπ(ως), \|
	τ(ίς) ἱστορούντ(ων) ἀκριβ(ὴς) καν(ὼν), μάθε: \|
	σαφ(ὴς) μὲτ’ ὄγκου, (καὶ) ταχύς πειθ(οῦς) γέμ(ων):-
	τοῦτ(ον) χρεὼν δ’ ἦν, τ(ῆς) δρυοῦς (καὶ) τοῦ ξύλου,:
	υἱ(ὸν) καλεῖσθ(αι)· τ(ὸν), ξυλουργοῦντα λόγ(ους):
	οὐ τ(ὸν), μελιχρ(ὸν) ἡρόδ(ο)τ(ον) ἐν τ(οῖς) λόγ(οις) +

Type(s)	[31392] Ὑποστροφὴν γίνωσκε τὸ σχῆμα τόδε (8 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. 184v
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the left and lower margins. The scholium is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links it to the word 'τούτοις' in the main text (Thuc. 5.17.2), the beginning of a hypostrophe by Thucydides.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Thucydides' Histories 5.17.2.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 BC) Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0380
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 19 J. Bértola 2022, Tzetzes' verse scholia on Thucydides and Herodotus: A survey with new evidence from Laur. Plut. 70,3, in E. Prodi (ed.), ΤΖΕΤΖΙΚΑΙ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΙ, Bologna, 335-357: 346 K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 297 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 31-35, 116 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 75
Number of verses	8
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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