Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34717

	ἀπουσία σφῶν, κέρδος \| ἀργυρεμπόροις: \|
	εἰ γὰρ παρῆσ(αν) αὐτοφόρτ(ους) ὁλκάδ(ας) \|
	ὤχοντ' ἂν ἁρπάσαντ(ες) αὐτ(οῖς) ἐμπόρ(οις)

Type(s)	[34714] Ἀπουσία σφῶν, κέρδος ἀργυρεμπόροις (3 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. 277r
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. Critical apparatus by Mazzucchi (1995: 211): 1 ἀργυρεμπόροις ] -πο- ex correctione
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 5.35.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0280
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: 211 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 93
Number of verses	3
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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