Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34725

	καὶ θεσμοθέτας \| εἴπερ ἠυτύχει πόλις: \|
	πόλις κράτ(ους) πρὶν \| νῦν δε μεστὴ δακρύ(ων): \|
	πάρεργον οὐκ ἂν \| ἰταλῶν ἦν ἀσπίδος: \|
	οἱ θεσμοφυλακεῖν γὰρ \| ἐξευρημένοι: \|
	δίχα παρασπίζοντος, \| ἠσθενημένοι:

Type(s)	[34722] Καὶ θεσμοθέτας εἴπερ ἠυτύχει πόλις (5 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. 298r
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 5.67.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Konstantinoupolis
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0301
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 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: 213 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 94
Number of verses	5
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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