Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31705

	τ(ὸν) παιονισμ(ὸν) βουλγαρισμ(ὸν) \| δ’ εἰ γρ(άφ)(εις), :
	γρ(άφ)(ειν) μι(κ)(ρ)(ὸν) γίνωσκε: \| μηδαμῶς μέγα:-

Type(s)	[31702] Τὸν παιονισμὸν βουλγαρισμὸν δ’ εἰ γράφεις (2 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. 269r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin.
Contextual information	The verse is written next to Thucydides' Histories 7.18.4 and refers to the word 'παιωνισμός' in the main text.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Comment	Kaldellis (2015: 77): "The scholion concerns the paianismos, which was the singing of the paian, the battle cry raised by Greek armies before battle. The mss. have paionismos, with an omega, but there were variants (esp. in Herodotos) with an omicron. Modern editors of Thucydides prefer paianismos. Tzetzes seized the moment to interject some ethnography."
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0549
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 389 A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 77 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 121-122
Number of verses	2
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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