Type 32825

Στίχοι δημώδεις. Λογισμὸς, τῆς Ἑρμογένους τέχνης,
τῶν στάσεων εὑρέσεων τῶν ἰδεῶν μεθόδων.
Ζητήσεις τὲ καὶ λογισμοὶ ταῦτα, τοῦ Ἑρμογένους
ὧν ὑπισχνεῖται μὲν εἰπεῖν ἢ λέγει δ᾽ ἢ οὐ λέγει
ἐν οἷς τινὲς χοιρόφρονες τὸν Τζέτζην αἰτιῶνται
τὸν Ἑρμογένη λέγοντες πάντα καλῶς συγγράψαι
καὶ περὶ ὧν ὑπέσχετο πάντα καλῶς διδάξαι,
Τζέτζην οὐ συνηκέναι δὲ ὡς εἰ ἐγὼ ἐκεῖνοι,
Τζέτζης ἦσαν ἐκεῖνοι δὲ τῷ ἐναντίῳ τρόπῳ.
Καὶ δὴ σκοπεῖτε σύμπαντες τίς χοιριᾷ κιρκαίως,
ὁ Τζέτζης ἢ οἱ βούβαλοι καὶ χοιροκράνου γένους;
Ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῶν στάσεων λοιπόν μοι καταρκτέον.
Title(s) Ioannis Tzetzes, In logismon in Hermogenem
Text source A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60, 652-690: 668
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Person(s)
Poet
John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s) Decapentasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Popular verses. Audit of Hermogenes’ art,
Legal issues, Invention, Style, Method.
These are queries and audits of what Hermogenes
promises to say, but then either says or does not say,
for which some pig-minded folks accuse Tzetzes,
saying that Hemogenes wrote everything well
and taught well everything he promised,
and that Tzetzes did not grasp it, as if I were they
and they, by contrast, were Tzetzes; but they were the opposite.
Now please, look everyone, who is like a pig of Circe,
is it Tzetzes or the buffaloes of the pigheaded race?
Let me then start now from the Issues.
Language
English
Source(s)
A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60, 652-690: 668
Bibliography
Number of verses 12
Occurrence(s) [32827] Στίχοι δημώδεις. Λογισμὸς, τῆς Ἑρμογένους τέχνης [1151-1200]
LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 1 [1151-1200] (f. 222v-223r)
(12 verses)
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