Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35941

	στίχ(οι)

	ἀνεκτὸς ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέ\|μων·
	μικροῦ \| τριτημόριον ἡμέ\|ρας χρόνου - \|
	οἱ γὰρ παρ’ ἡ\|μῖν τυραν\|νοῦντες \| ἐκτόπως, \|
	πάνυχον ἅμα \| καὶ πανήμερον \| χρόνον,
	ταῖς \| παιδιαῖς προ\|σεῖχον ἢ (καὶ) τ(αῖς) \| μέθαις·
	ἀν\|δραπόδων \| βιοῦντ(ες) ἐμ\|παθῆ βίον· \|
	ἐξ ὧν τὸ κά\|λλος τ(ῆς) νέ(ας) \| ῥωμαΐδος· \|
	γηραλέα \| συνέσχε \| ῥυτὶς ἀθρόον· \|
	ἡ βασιλὶς \| δὲ καὶ πασ(ῶν) ὑπερτάτη, \|
	ληστῶν ὑπῆρ\|ξε· 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	June 1372
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [June 1372]
Place in Manuscript	f. 130v
Person(s)	Scribe Konstantinos (14th c.) - RGK: II.321 - VGH: 250.C - PLP: VI.14128 (chartophylax of Pissa < Peloponnesos < Greece)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink 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://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107233831/f135.item
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: 84-85
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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