| Title(s) |
Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (35.39-36.71)
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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: 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) |
Nothing is worse than the man-destroying grief,
which not even John proved he could resist,
truly a hero, an Ares, breaker of the ranks of men,
heavy-armoured, who raises alone the din of battle.
He left behind the fame of his family lineage
and the royal worship that bears the name of Christ.
There is nothing worse than this! Oh, recklessness! Oh, grief!
Wretched he who by this was even separated from God!
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 35.39-36.71.
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: 147, 205-207
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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: 19
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| Number of verses |
8 |
| 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/33741 |
