| Text source |
M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 30
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Scribe-related epigram
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
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The shit of the copyist stinks the worst here.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 74
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The scribe’s excrement smells the most.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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T. Mészáros 2013, Byzantine Metrical Scholia on Thucydides, in P. Fodor, G. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács (eds.), More modoque: die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident; Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Budapest, 67-76: 72, n. 14
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Il letame del copista puzza al suo peggio.
- Language
- Italian
- Source(s)
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M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 30
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| Bibliography |
Primary
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K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 296
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T. Mészáros 2013, Byzantine Metrical Scholia on Thucydides, in P. Fodor, G. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács (eds.), More modoque: die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident; Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Budapest, 67-76: 72, n. 14
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| Number of verses |
1 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[31391] ὄζει κόπρο(ς) κάκιστ(ον) ἡ βιβλογρ(άφ)ου
[1146-1155]
HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950]
(f. 184v)
(1 verse)
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| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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| Identification |
Vassis ICB 2005, 509: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Scholium in Thucydidem (5.16.2)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/31388 |
