Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34697

	ἀσκληπιάδαις \| νῦν δε τιννύτω χάριν: \|
	ὁ πάμβορος θὴρ \| μυριόστομος δράκ(ων): \|
	κτείνουσι κ(αὶ) νοσοῦντας \| οὐ θανασίμως: \|
	ἀνθρωποδέκτιν \| εὐρύνων ἐπαρχίαν:

Type(s)	[34694] Ἀσκληπιάδαις νῦν δὲ τιννύτω χάριν (4 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. 241v
Person(s)	Scribe Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the left 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 4.71.1-2.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Asklepios Hades
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0245
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: 210 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 90-91
Number of verses	4
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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