| 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: 987-988
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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) |
Heracles, your deeds are nonsense
and simply a myth and a prodigious tale.
For, what is the battle with the rivers, what is the one with Cerberus?
What is the wound from the corpse from which you wretched suffered?
For the emperor cuts the strength of the wild boar
of outstanding tusks, bred in the mountains,
after countless labours, after victories,
which the East saw and the West, the North and the South.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 40.61-64.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 230r), 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: 151-152, 213-215
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E. Miller, 1881, Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. Historiens grecs (vol. 2), Paris: 191
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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: 21
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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 |
Vassis ICB 2005, 318: "Scholium marg. in Nicetae Choniatae historiam"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/33756 |
