Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 33173

θουκυδίδης ἐλέλιζεν· ἐὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι:
οἷά περ ἱστορίης· δημηγόρον ἦθος ὑφαίνων·
δεξιτερὴν γὰρ ἀνέσχε μετάρσιον ὡς πρὶν ἀείδων·
σπαρτης πικρὸν ἄρηα καὶ αὐτῶν κεκροπιδάων·
ἑλλάδος ἀμητῆρα πολυθρέπτοιο τιθήνης
Type(s) [3245] Θουκυδίδης δ’ ἐλέλιζεν ἑὸν νόον· ἦν δὲ νοῆσαι (5 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 11th c.
Manuscript PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 255 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 292r
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110001796/f295.item
Bibliography

Primary

A. Kleinlogel, K. Alpers (eds.), 2019, Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem. Scholia vetustiora et Lexicon Thucydideum Patmense, Berlin: 3, 155
Number of verses 5
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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