Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36126

	στίχ(οι)

	ἀνεκτὸς ἦν ἅμα\|σις τῆ σπουδῆ νέ\|μων·
	μικρόν τὲ \| τὶ μόριον ἡμέ\|ρας χρόνον·
	οἱ \| γὰρ ἡμῖν τυρανοῦν\|τες ἐκ πότου \|
	πάνυχον ἅμα \| κ(αὶ) πανήμερον \| χρόνον·
	ταῖς \| παιδιαῖς προσῆχον· ἢ κ(αὶ) ταῖς μέθαις·
	ἀνδραπόδων βι\|οῦντες ἐμπαθῆ βίον·
	ἐξ ὧν τὸ κάλλος τῆς νέ(ας) ῥωμαΐδος \|
	γηραλέα συνέσχε. ῥυτὶς ἀθρόον·
	ἡ βασιλὶς δὲ ἡ πασῶν ὑπὲρ \| ταύτη,
	λοιστῶν ὑπῆρξε δυσμενῶν 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	15th c.
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 58r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right and lower margins 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://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/84c05e77-78a8-4190-bfd9-fe35270aa8f6/surfaces/0bd66672-0f84-44cd-aafd-fda33af124ca/
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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