Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34676

	ὢ δυσγαμούντ(ων) \| εἰ φθόρα, γάμου πέρας: \|
	φευκτὰ κρύφια \| λέκτρα τῶν βασιλίδ(ων).

Type(s)	[34673] Ὢ δυσγαμούντων, εἰ φθόρα, γάμου πέρας (2 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. 89r
Person(s)	Scribe Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the right 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 2.13.4. It is followed by another verse scholium, written by a later scholiast (hand 5, cf. Mazzucchi (1994)).
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 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: 209 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 88-89
Number of verses	2
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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