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Occurrence 36067

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	ὧδε φρενῶν ἔ\|δειξε καμβύσ(ης) \| γέμειν·
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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	August 1440
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [August 1440]
Place in Manuscript	f. 97v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes of Chandax < Crete < Greece (15th c.) - VGH: 202.G - PLP: IV.8463 (deutereuon of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece, diakonos of Sparta < Laconia < 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 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) [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) [36032] ὧδε φρεν(ῶν) ἔδειξε \| καμβύσης γέμειν [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 49r) (3 verses) (3/3) display 3 more occurrences (6 in total) hide 3 occurrences (6 in total)
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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