Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34658

	※ ἔκφευγε γάμ(ους) σεμιρά\|μιδος ξένε:- \|
	(καὶ) γὰρ γεννῶσι τοῖς μετα\|σχοῦσι φόνον:- \|
	ὄλοιτο γυνὴ (καὶ) γάμο(ς) ἐκ \| τοῦ βίου·
	ἄνπερ \| γεννῶσι τῷ μετασχοντι \| φόνον:-
	ἂν \| ἡδύνωσι σεμίραμις \| οἱ γάμοι,
	κτείνεις \| ἵνα τί τοὺς καλλίστ(ους) \| νυμφίους·
	ἂν \| παραπικραίνωσι, λίπε \| τ(οὺς) γάμ(ους)·
	(καὶ) τ(ῶν) νέων οἴ\|κτειρον ἀγαθὴν θέαν +

Type(s)	[34656] Ἔκφευγε γάμους Σεμιράμιδος, ξένε (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1291-1310
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 89r
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the right margin (hand 5, cf. Mazzucchi (1994)).
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 2.13.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Marriage
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0092
Bibliography	Primary 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: 202, n. 155, 203 (image: plate V(a)) 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. 33 A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 95
Number of verses	8
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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