Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 31381

	Γλώσσης νόησον Ἀττικῆς εἶναι τόδε,
	ψωμοῦ φαγεῖν τε καὶ λαβεῖν ἀνδρῶν λέγειν,
	οἴνων πιεῖν τε καὶ τὰ τοιούτου τρόπου,
	μηδ’ αὖ σόλοικον μηδαμῶς νόει τόδε.

Text source	M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 115
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Grammar
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Understand that this is characteristic of the Attic dialect, (...) so under no circumstances think this is a solecism. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 15 Comment Partial translation: vv. 1 and 4 Sappi che ciò è tipico della parlata attica, il dire 'mangiare del cibo’ e ‘prendere degli uomini’ e ‘bere del vino’ ed espressioni di questo stesso genere: né devi pertanto assolutamente ritenerlo un solecismo. Language Italian Source(s) M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 115
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 15 K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 295
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[31383] γλώσσ(ης) νόησ(ον) ἀττ(ικ)(ῆς), (εἶναι) τόδε [1146-1155] HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950] (f. 183v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 121: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Scholium in Thucydidem (5.15.1)"
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