Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31402

	σπονδ(ὰς) μ(εν) ἐξώρκωσ(αν) ἀβλαβ(εῖς) \| μέν(ειν):∙
	ὅπλα φέρ(ειν) δε μηδαμ(ῶς) ἔστω \| λέγ(ειν),:
	τζέτζ(ης), σολοικίζου(σ)(ιν) \| ἐντάττει λόγοις: \|
	οὐκ οἶδ(εν) ἀττίκισμα τουτοὶ \| λέγ(ειν):∙
	οὕτω γράφ(ων) δε, \| σοῖς περιστρόφ(οις) λόγ(οις),: \|
	πέφευγ(ας), ὃς κρίν(ειν) σε τεχνικ(ῶς) \| θέλει:-
	πηλὸς, λιθουργ(ῶν) \| συγκαλύπτει φαυλίαν: \|
	γραφ(ῆς) σκότο(ς) δε, τ(οὺς) \| σολοίκους τῶν λόγ(ων):-

Type(s)	[31396] Σπονδὰς μὲν ἐξώρκωσαν ἀβλαβεῖς μένειν (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. 185r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin. 5 σοῖς ] σὺ supra lineam
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Thucydides' Histories 5.18.1-5.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/ Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0381
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 15-16 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: 341-342 K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 298 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 35-37, 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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