Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34691

	ὅρα· κολάζει καὶ µύθος \| τὰ τῆς µέθης: \|
	τοὺς γὰρ παροίνους· \| προσγενεῖς ὁ λαπίθης: \|
	κτείνει· γυναιμανοῦντ(ας) \| ἐν μέσοις πότοις: \|
	παροινί(ας) ἔπαθλ(ον) \| εὑρόντας φόνον:

Type(s)	[34688] Ὅρα· κολάζει καὶ µύθος τὰ τῆς µέθης (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE 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: 210
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1203
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 241r
Person(s)	Scribe Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/ - RGK: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ:
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. Critical apparatus of Mazzucchi (1995: 210): 2 τοὺς γὰρ in litura 3 κτείνει. γυναιμαν- in litura; scripserat, ut vid., ἀνεκτας ταις \| μέσοις in litura
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 4.70.3.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Centauromachy
Comment	The end of the first line (i. e. the middle of the first verse, καὶ μύθος) is illegible on the online reproduction and was taken from Mazzucchi (1995: 210).
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0244
Bibliography	Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 90
Number of verses	4
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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