Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 31514

	Τὸ σὸν σκοτεινὸν καὶ τὸ τοῦ βιβλογράφου
	Χάρυβδιν οἵαν ἐξεγείρουσι λόγοις.
	Λοιπὸν τὰ πολλὰ σῶν παρατρέχων λόγων
	τὰ συμφανῆ σύμπασιν ἐγγράψω μόνα·
	τὰ γὰρ σολοικίζοντα πικρὸν δεικνύειν.

Text source	M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 38
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Grammar Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Complaint Criticism of the author Criticism of the scribe Polemic Scholium
Translation(s)	Your obscurity along with that of the copyist rouse up such a Charybdis in the narrative. From now on I am going to race through most of your accounts, commenting only on what is evident to all; it is a bitter chore to highlight all the solecisms. Language English Source(s) A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 76 What a Charybdis has been created by your obscurity and by that of the scribe in the work. The only thing I can do is – after rushing through the most of your work – to add comments to the loci which are completely clear to all, since it is a troublesome task to comment on the incorrect use of the language. Language English Source(s) 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: 73 La tua oscurità e quella del copista, che Cariddi scatenano su quel che dici! Perciò d'ora in poi scorrendo velocemente la maggior parte delle tue Storie annoterò soltanto quello che a tutti è evidente a prima vista: è infatti amara fatica segnalare i solecismi sintattici. Language Italian Source(s) M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 38
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 16 J. Bértola 2022, Tzetzes' verse scholia on Thucydides and Herodotus: A survey with new evidence from Laur. Plut. 70,3, in E. Prodi (ed.), ΤΖΕΤΖΙΚΑΙ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΙ, Bologna, 335-357: 342 K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 298 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: 73 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 75-76
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[31518] τὸ σ(ὸν) σκοτειν(ὸν) (καὶ) τὸ τοῦ \| βιβλογράφου [1146-1155] HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950] (f. 185r) (5 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, 788: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Scholium in Thucydidem (5.18.5)"
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