| 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: 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) |
Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
The wound that scraped the skin of the finger was small,
but the inflammation of the hand was so beyond measure
and the excessive pains were so deep
as to exhaust the remedies of the Machaones (doctors).
And this reveals the end of your life to you, emperor:
now think about the heir of the power.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 40.71-41.7.
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: 152-153, 215-216
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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 |
6 |
| 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/33758 |
