| 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
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Subject(s) |
Konstantinoupolis
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
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You are right to disbelieve this; especially if you consider
the current state of the harbor of Byzantion
facing down the innumerable ships of the Italians,
that are so hard to ram: it can barely muster twenty ships.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 88
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A non creder fai bene, tanto più se poni mente
come ora si trovò che la rada di Bisanzio
contro le innumeri e insperonabili navi
degli Itali non ne abbia neppur due volti dieci.
- Language
- Italian
- Source(s)
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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
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| 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."
The epigram addresses the author of a previous annotation. It refers to the arrival of the fleet of the Crusaders to Constantinople in June 1203.
Text of Mazzucchi (1995: 208) modified by DBBE. |
| Bibliography |
Primary
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J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 352-353
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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: 224-227
Secondary
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J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 347 (n. 39)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 87-88
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| Number of verses |
4 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[34672] καλ(ῶς) ἀπιστεῖς· μᾶλλον | εἰς νοῦν εἰ λάβης
[1203]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
(f. 82v)
(4 verses)
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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, 394: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (2.5.6)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/34669 |
