Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34729

	εὖ οἰνοπίων ἔσχεν \| ἀρχὴν τῆς χίου: \|
	καὶ τίς γαρ ἄλλη \| προσφυεστέρα πλέον: \|
	ὁ δ' οὖν κύων τὴν λέξιν \| αἰχμαλωτίσει: \|
	ὡς ἀστεισμοῖς χρησίμην \| τοῖς ἐλλόγοις: \|
	οἷς ἡμ(ῖν) ἡ τράπεζα \| φλεγμαίν(ειν) φθάνει: \|
	οἷς ἐντρυφῆσαι καὶ πάλ(ιν) \| γένοιτό μοι: \|
	μικρὸν παρηγόρημα \| τῶν μακρ(ῶν) πόνων: \|
	ὧν ἡ ξιφήρης χεὶρ \| ἰταλῶν αἰτία: \|
	τοὺς ἀστικ(οὺς) μιγνύσα \| τοῖς ὀρεστέροις:

Type(s)	[34726] Εὖ Οἰνοπίων ἔσχεν ἀρχὴν τῆς Χίου (9 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: 213 DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1203
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 306v
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 5.79.1.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Chios Konstantinoupolis Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Comment	Due to the bad quality of the online reproduction, Mazzucchi (1995: 211) has been kept as text source for vv. 3-4 and the first part of v. 8.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0310
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: 214 (image: plate IV) Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 94-95
Number of verses	9
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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