Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36104

	στίχ(οι)

	ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμων· \|
	μικροῦ τριτημόριον \| ἡμέρας χρόνου·
	οἱ \| γὰρ παρ’ ἡμῖν τυραν-\|νοῦντες ἐκτόπως, \|
	πάννυχ(ον) ἅμα καὶ \| πανήμερον χρόν(ον) \|
	τ(αῖς) παιδι(αῖς) προσεῖχον \| ἢ κ(αὶ) ταῖς μέθαις \|
	ἀνδραπόδων βιοῦντες \| ἐμπαθῆ βίον·
	ἐξ ὧν \| τὸ κάλλο(ς) τῆς νέ(ας) ῥωμα-\|ΐδος,
	γηραλέα συνέ-\|σχε ῥυτὶς ἀθρόον· \|
	ἡ βασιλὶς δὲ κ(αὶ) πασ(ῶν) \| ὑπερτάτη,
	ληστῶν \| ὑπῆρξε δυσμεν(ῶν) κα-\|τοικία:

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	1480
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480]
Place in Manuscript	f. 115v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Raoul Kabakes (15th c.) - RGK: I.95, II.128e, III.162 - VGH: 102.A, 295.B - PLP: V.10016
Palaeographical information	Written in black 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://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1359.pt.1/118
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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