Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34721

	τοιαῦτα τὰ σπέρματα \| τῶν μακρῶν πότων: \|
	τὸ πατρόθεν σβέννυσιν \| ἡ τρυφὴ κλέος: \|
	ῥαθυμίαν ἄνανδρον \| ὁπλίτα φύγε: \|
	εὔκλειαν οἶδε \| καὶ παλαιὰν ὀλλύειν:

Type(s)	[34718] Τοιαῦτα τὰ σπέρματα τῶν μακρῶν πότων (4 verses)
Text source	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
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1203
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 281r
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. There is a blank space between vv. 1 and 2 and between vv. 2 and 3.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 5.40.4-5.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Comment	Due to the bad quality of the online reproduction, Mazzucchi (1995: 211) has been kept as text source.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0284
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 40-41 J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 348 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 93-94
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(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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