Type 33756
| Ἥρακλες, ὕθλος τὰ κατορθώματά σου, | |
| καὶ μῦθος ἁπλῶς καὶ τερατώδης λόγος· | |
| τίς γὰρ ποταμῶν, τίς δε Κερβέρου μάχη; | |
| τίς ἐκ νέκυος τρῶσις ἣν πάθες τάλας; | |
| ὁ γὰρ βασιλεὺς συὸς ἀγρίου σθένος | |
| χαυλιόδοντος οὐρεσιτρόφου τέμνει, | |
| μετὰ μυρίους ἀέθλους μετὰ νίκας· | |
| ἕως ἃς εἶδε καὶ δυσμὴ, βορρᾶς, νότος. |
| 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 |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Editorial status | Critical text |
| Genre(s) | Text-related epigram |
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| Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
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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. |
| Comment | The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 40.61-64. |
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| Number of verses | 8 |
| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete. |
| Identification | Vassis ICB 2005, 318: "Scholium marg. in Nicetae Choniatae historiam" |
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Last modified: 2021-11-19.
