Title(s) |
Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (16.25-31)
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Text source |
J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 975
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Text status |
Text completely known |
Editorial status |
Critical text |
Genre(s) |
Text-related epigram
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Person(s) |
- Poet
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Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
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Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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Subject(s) |
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Tag(s) |
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Translation(s) |
It is a quadriga, king, the group of your four children,
which you mounted and drove trusting in God
and on which you preferred to visit the four corners of creation.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 16.25-31.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 225v), where it does not function as a book epigram. |
Bibliography |
Primary
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J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 134
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H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 9
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Number of verses |
3 |
Occurrence(s) |
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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 |
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Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/33641 |