Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34664

+ ἀρχιδικαστὰ τῆς παρούσ(ης) ἡμέρ(ας)
πατρικί(ας) τὸ σκῶμμα μή σε δακνέτω
τὴν ἱστορί(αν) ἔσχες ἀρχετυπίαν·
καὶ ζώδιόν σοι τῶν πολυτίμ(ων) λίθων
ἀρχιδικασπολοῦντο(ς) ἐξηρτημ(έν)(ον),
τὸ λοίδορ(ον) φράγνυσι τοῦ σκώπτου στόμα
Type(s) [32345] Ἀρχιδικαστὰ τῆς παρούσης ἡμέρας (6 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1203
Manuscript VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript f. 60r
Person(s)
Scribe
Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Palaeographical information Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Written by a later hand in the lower margin (hand 3, cf. Mazzucchi (1995)). Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies this hand as Niketas Choniates.
Contextual information The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 1.75.7.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Image source(s) https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0063
Bibliography

Primary

C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 200 (image: plate I), 208

Secondary

A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 86-87
Number of verses 6
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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