Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31770

	+ ἔδει μ(ὲν) (...) γόργυρ(αν) ὦ θουκυδίδη, :
	τ(οὺς) ἀττικ(οὺς) ῥίψαι σε σὺν τῷ βιβλίῳ·
	οὐκ, ὀστρακίζ(ειν) θρᾳκικ(οῖς) γε τ(οῖς) ὅροις:- \|
	(...)χ ἱστορ(ῶν) φαίνη γ(αρ) ἃ προὔβη πάλαι:
	κρύπτ(ων) δὲ μᾶ(...)(ον) ἃ παρῆξ(εν) ὁ χρόνος,
	τῷ σῷ σκοτεινῶ κ(αὶ) ξυλώδει τοῦ λόγου:- \|
	ἐγώ γ(αρ) αὐτὸ(ς) ὁσπερ ἐγγράφω τάδε;
	τζέτζ(ης)· κατειδ(ως) ἵστορ(ας) πόσ(ας) βίβλ(ους):
	πράξ(εις) τὲ πάσ(ας) ἃς τὰ νῦν αὐτὸ(ς) γράφεις, \|
	ω(...) διοβλ(ὴς) (καὶ) κατεβροντημ(έν)ο(ς),
	τ(οῖς), οἷς ἔγραψ(ας) λοξοσυστρόφ(οις) λόγοις:
	μνήμ(ης) ἁπασ(ῶν) ἐστερήθην ἁθρόως: \|
	(...) τις ἄλλο(ς) τ(ῶν) ἀνιστόρ(ων) πάθοι:-
	τ(ῶν) ἱστορούντ(ων), τεχνικ(ὸν) λόγ(ον) νόει,
	σαφῆ μετ’ ὄγκου· πειστικ(όν)· γλυκὺν ἅμα: \|
	(καὶ) γοργ(ὸν), οὗ χρή: πῇ δὲ (καὶ) μῆκος φέρειν: +

Type(s)	[31767] Ἔδει μὲν εἰς γόργυραν, ὦ Θουκυδίδη (16 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. 326v
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Thucydides' Histories.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/ Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Comment	Kaldellis (2015: 77-78): "This is Tzetzes’ infamous farewell to Thucydides, probably the most hostile verdict on him ever expressed by a classical scholar. (...) Tzetzes repeats some of his accusations from scholion 32 (see above)" (i.e. on f. 184v) "and echoes the criticisms of Thucydides made by Dionysios of Halikarnassos."
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0664
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 433-434 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 132-136 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: 67 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 77-78
Number of verses	16
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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