Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 32320

	Γράφεις ἀσαφῶς ἀσαφῆ καινογράφε·
	κλῆσιν παριστῶν οὐδαμῶς τὴν ὀρνέου·
	οἶμαι τὸ λοιπὸν ἀγνοεῖς καὶ σὺ γράφων·
	τί γοῦν διδάσκεις ἀσαφῶς φύσιν ξένην
	ἣν οὐ γινώσκεις· ἀλλὰ φήμη συγγραφεις

Type(s)	[32318] Γράφεις ἀσαφῶς ἀσαφῆ, καινογράφε (5 verses)
Text source	C. Mazzucchi 1994, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte prima: stratigrafia, Aevum, 68(1), 164-218: 181
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1176-1200
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 143v
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the left margin (hand 2, cf. Mazzucchi (1994)).
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 3.28.1-2.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Diodorus Siculus of Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy (90 BC - 30 BC)
Comment	Due to the bad quality of the online reproduction, Mazzucchi (1994: 181) has been kept as text source.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0147
Bibliography	Secondary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 39, n. 32 A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 83
Number of verses	5
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(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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