| Title(s) |
Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (35.28-38)
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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: 983-984
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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) |
The newborn thorn, a popular saying,
shows immediately its noble nature,
and the soft twig shows a fruitful tree,
and the edge shows the cloth according to the proverb.
Whoever pays attention shall also see the most royal
soul, brave and bursting with gifts
living in the youngster, cub of the king.
For such a saviour of the city was he since he was a whelp,
Manuel the Komnenian, great king.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 35.28-38.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 228v), 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: 145-146, 201-205
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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: 18
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| Number of verses |
9 |
| 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/33735 |
