| Title(s) |
Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (20.23-25)
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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: 977
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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) |
Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
The king recovers the city of Kastamon
for the Greeks, besides he also destroys Gangra.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 20.23-25.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 226v), 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: 137-138, 186
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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: 11
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| Number of verses |
2 |
| 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/33653 |
