| Title(s) |
Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (33.67-83)
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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: 982
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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) |
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King, gentle and moderate in character,
you seem somehow severe to the army of the Romans,
stirring them in all possible ways towards martial manners,
you skilfully force them to camp out in the field.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 983
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King, gentle and moderate in character,
you seem somehow severe to the army of the Romans,
completely stirring them up for the martial issues,
you skilfully force them to camp out in the field.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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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: 145
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 33.67-83.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 228r), 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: 144-145, 199-200
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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: 17
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| Number of verses |
4 |
| 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/33729 |
