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Occurrence 36031

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	γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους· \|
	ἂν τοὺς πόδ(ας) ἔθλιψ(εν) \| ὡς ποδῶν βάρη, \|
	τὰς καρδί(ας) ηὔφραν(εν) \| ὡς χρυσοῦς πλέον· \|
	ὢ τίς κομίσει ταύτ(ας) \| αὐτοῖς τὰς πέδας· \|
	(καὶ) πάντας ἔνθεν ἀπο\|φήνη δεσμίους, \|
	τοὺς χρυσ(ὸν) ἐμπνέοντ(ας) \| πλέον \|
	οὐδεὶς γ(ὰρ) αὐτ(ῶν) ἐξέφυγε \| τὴν δέσιν,
	οὐδ’ αὖ μί(αν) \| ἔστερξεν εἰληφ(ῶς) πέδ(ην)· \|
	ὁμοῦ δὲ χεῖρ(ας) (καὶ) τρά\|χηλον (καὶ) πόδας, \|
	(καὶ) σωματικ(ὴν) ἅπα\|σαν διαρτίαν, \|
	ταῖς χρυσίναις \| ἔσπευσε ληφθῆ\|ναι πέδαις:-

Type(s)	[35887] Γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους (11 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1469
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469]
Place in Manuscript	f. 48v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Plousiadenos of Crete < Greece (1429 - 09/08/1500) - RGK: I.176, II.234, III.294 - VGH: 185.H - PLP: X.23385 (archon, protopapas, psaltes, thytes)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin by the main scribe. 6 ἐμπνέοντ(ας) ] post hoc verbum spatium vacuum unius verbi capax
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.23.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 73-74 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: 89-90
Number of verses	11
Related occurrence(s)	[35911] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸ(ς) οὗτο(ς) \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 96v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36004] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 94r) (11 verses) (11/11) [36066] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸ(ς) οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 96r) (11 verses) (11/11) [36157] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 91v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36123] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσ\|μὸς οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 23v) (11 verses) (11/11) [35969] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 142v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36078] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος εἰς \| φιλοχρύσους [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 65v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36113] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 127v) (11 verses) (11/11) display 5 more occurrences (8 in total) hide 5 occurrences (8 in total)
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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