Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 34673

	Ὢ δυσγαμούντων, εἰ φθόρα, γάμου πέρας·
	φευκτὰ κρύφια λέκτρα τῶν βασιλίδων.

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: 209
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-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)	Marriage
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Address to the reader Death Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	What an end to the marriage for those wrongly united – if it is death! Stay away from the clandestine beds of queens. Language English Source(s) A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 88 O voi malmaritati, se lo stupro è il fine delle nozze! Fuggir bisogna delle regine i letti clandestini. 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: 209
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: 227-228 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: 88-89
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[34676] ὢ δυσγαμούντ(ων) \| εἰ φθόρα, γάμου πέρας [1203] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975] (f. 89r) (2 verses)
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, 883: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (2.13.4)"
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