Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31530

	οὐκ (ἔστιν)· οὕτ(ως) οὐδαμ(ῶς) θουκυδ(ί)δη·
	ταῦρο(ς) δέ τ(ις) β(οῦς) ἐκφυγ(ὼν) ἡρακλέα,
	ἐκ τ(ῆς) θαλάσσ(ης), εἰς, ἐκεῖ γ(ῆς) ἐξέδυ:
	ζητ(ῶν) δὲ τοῦτ(ον) ἡρακλ(ῆς) πάντη τρέχ(ων):
	ἀνδρὶ τυχ(ὼν) ἔφασκ(εν) βαρβάρω γένει·
	εἰ ταῦρ(ον) εἶδε τ(οῖς) ἐκεῖ γ(ῆς) ἐν, τόπ(οις):
	ὃς, ταῦρ(ον) οὔκουν· ἀλλ’ ἰταλ(ὸν) ἰδ(εῖν) ἔφη·
	τ(ὸν) ταῦρ(ον) αὐτ(ὸν), βαρβάρω γλώσση λέγ(ων):
	κλῆσ(ις) το λοιπ(ὸν) γίνετ(αι) χώ(ρας) τόδε:
	τζέτζ(ην) παλαίο(ς) (?) π(ᾶς) πτοοῦ χρονογρ(άφ)ο(ς):
	λαθ(εῖν) γ(ὰρ) αὐτ(ὸν) οὐδὲ δαίμ(ων) ἰσχύει +

Type(s)	[31521] Οὐκ ἔστιν οὕτως οὐδαμῶς, Θουκυδίδη (11 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. 214r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin. The scholium is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links it to the phrase 'ἀπο ἰτάλου βασιλέως τινὸς σικελῶν' in the main text (Thuc. 6.2.4).
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Thucydides' Histories 6.2.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herakles John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/ Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Comment	Kaldellis (2015: 76): 'This is a historical scholion on Thucydides’ explanation of the name Italy as coming from “Italos, some king of the Sikels. Thus was Italy named.” Tzetzes picks up from that “thus.”' Mészáros (2013: 74, n. 25): "The source of Tzetzes was probably Apollod. II 5, 10."
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0439
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 328-329 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 75-78, 117 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: 74 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 76
Number of verses	11
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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