Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 34665

Γεγηρακώς, νῦν οὐ πτοοῦµαι τὸν νόµον.

Text source	C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 208
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/ - RGK: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/ - RGK: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium Self-presentation
Translation(s)	Now that I have grown old, I am not afraid of this custom. Language English Source(s) A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 87 Ora, invecchiato, la legge non pavento. Language Italian Source(s) C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 208
Comment	Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies the author as Niketas Choniates. Bértola (2021: 42) is more cautious: "Nothing invites the rejection of the postulated authorship of Niketas Choniates, but there is not enough evidence either to accept it without prudent hesitation."
Bibliography	Primary C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 223-224 Secondary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 39-42 A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 87
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[34668] γεγηρακ(ὼς) νῦν οὐ πτοοῦµαι \| τὸν νόµον [1203] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975] (f. 69v) (1 verse)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 115: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (1. 88.5)"
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