Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35842

	στίχ(οι)

	ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμων \|
	μικροῦ τριτημόρι(ον) \| ἡμέρας χρόνου· \|
	οἱ γ(ὰρ) παρ’ ἡμῖν τυραν\|νοῦντες ἐκτόπ(ως), \|
	πάννυχ(ον) ἅμα κ(αὶ) \| πανήμερον χρόν(ον) \|
	τ(αῖς) παιδι(αῖς) προσεῖχον \| ἢ (καὶ) ταῖς μέθαις· \|
	ἀνδραπόδ(ων) βιοῦντ(ες) \| ἐμπαθῆ βίον· \|
	ἐξ ὧν τὸ κάλλο(ς) τ(ῆς) \| νέας ῥωμαΐδο(ς) \|
	γηραλέα συνέσχε \| ῥυτὶς ἀθρόον· \|
	ἡ βασιλὶς δὲ (καὶ) πασ(ῶν) \| ὑπερτάτη, \|
	ληστῶν ὑπῆρξε \| δυσμεν(ῶν) κατοικία:-

Type(s)	[35840] Ἀνεκτὸς ἦν Ἅμασις τῇ σπουδῇ νέμων (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	March 1318
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [March 1318]
Place in Manuscript	f. 87v
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Triklines (13th c. - 14th c.) - RGK: III.519 - VGH: 360.B - PLP: XII.29315
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 2.173.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Amasis II of Egypt (600 BC-575 BC - 526 BC)
Image source(s)	https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1359300
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 68-69 J. Bértola 2023, A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its Apographa, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 72, 63-96: 83 (image: plate 1), 84-85, 84 (image: plate 2) 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: 349
Number of verses	10
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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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