Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36147

	στίχ(οι)·

	ὡς ἀνδρικ(ὸν) σὺ τὸν \| ψαμμήνιτον λέγεις· \|
	πρὸς λυπρὰς οὕτως \| ἀνδρισάμ(εν)ον τύχας \|
	(καὶ) μηδαμῶς παθεῖν \| τι δυσγενὲς πάθος· \|
	φεισάμ(εν)ον δὲ καὶ ψι-\|λῶν στεναγμάτων· \|
	ἐν πάθεσι χρήζουσι \| πολλῶν δακρύων:-

Type(s)	[35856] Ὡς ἀνδρικὸν σὺ τὸν Ψαμμήνιτον λέγεις (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1491-1510
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510]
Place in Manuscript	f. 89r
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Damilas (15th-16th c.) - RGK: I.93, II.127, III.160 - PLP: III.5084
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 3.14.3.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 BC) Psamtik III of Egypt (600 BC-551 BC - 525 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: 70 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: 85-86
Number of verses	5
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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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