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Occurrence 35915

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	ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσης γέμ(ειν)· \|
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Type(s)	[35912] Ὧδε φρενῶν ἔδειξε Καμβύσης γέμειν (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	01/03/1318-31/12/1318
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [March 1318]
Place in Manuscript	f. 97v
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Triklines (13th c. - 14th c.) - RGK: III.519 - VGH: 360.B - PLP: XII.29315
Palaeographical information	Written in the left and lower margins by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.29.1.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Cambyses II (600 BC-576 BC - 522 BC)
Image source(s)	https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1359320
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 75 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: 90 (image: plate 10) Secondary 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: 351
Number of verses	3
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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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