Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 32318

	Γράφεις ἀσαφῶς ἀσαφῆ, καινογράφε,
	κλῆσιν παριστῶν οὐδαμῶς τὴν ὀρνέου.
	Οἶμαι τὸ λοιπὸν ἀγνοεῖς καὶ σὺ γράφων·
	τί γοῦν διδάσκεις ἀσαφῶς φύσιν ξένην
	ἣν οὐ γινώσκεις, ἀλλὰ φήμῃ συγγράφεις;

Title(s)	Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (3.28.1-2)
Text source	C. Mazzucchi 1994, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte prima: stratigrafia, Aevum, 68(1), 164-218: 181
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Diodorus Siculus of Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy (90 BC - 30 BC)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Criticism of the author Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	You write unclear things obscurely, you contriver of exotic reports; you don’t actually give the name of the bird; from now on I believe that you don’t know what even you are writing. So why do you instruct us about this bizarre creature, which you yourself don’t know? You are just recording a tall tale. Language English Source(s) A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 83 Scrivi senza chiarezza cose oscure, o novator scrittore, non adducendo affatto il nome dell'uccello. Del resto penso che tu pure non sai quello che scrivi. Perche, appunto, ci informi oscuramente di un essere mostruoso che non conosci, ma scrivi per sentito dire? Language Italian Source(s) C. Mazzucchi 1994, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte prima: stratigrafia, Aevum, 68(1), 164-218: 181
Comment	Text of Mazzucchi (1994: 181) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 83
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[32320] Γράφεις ἀσαφῶς ἀσαφῆ καινογράφε [1176-1200] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975] (f. 143v) (5 verses)
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