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Occurrence 36032

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	ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσης γέμειν· \|
	θεὸν βόειον δεξι\|ούμ(εν)ος ξίφει·
	ὡς \| πάχος αὐτοῦ σαρ\|κικ(ὸν) ἀποξέση:-

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	1469
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469]
Place in Manuscript	f. 49r
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 right margin 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)
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
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[35915] ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσης γέμ(ειν) [01/03/1318-31/12/1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 97v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36005] ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) \| ἔδειξε καμ\|βύσης γέμ(ειν) [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 95v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36067] ὧδε φρενῶν ἔ\|δειξε καμβύσ(ης) \| γέμειν [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 97v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36158] ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσης γέμειν [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 93r) (3 verses) (3/3) [35970] ὧδε φρενῶν \| ἔδειξε καμβύ\|σης γέμειν [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 144v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36114] ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσ(ης) γέμειν [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 129v) (3 verses) (3/3) display 3 more occurrences (6 in total) hide 3 occurrences (6 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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