| 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: 213
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Text-related epigram
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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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Even if a city was fortunate enough to have founders of order,
a city formerly of strength, but now full of tears,
would it not be subjected by Italian arms?
For those who discovered how to guard their order,
become weak without someone to defend them.
- Language
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English
- Source(s)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 94
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Se anche buoni legislatori la città avesse avuto in sorte
città di potenza prima, or di lacrime piena,
trastullo non sarebbe dell'italico àspide?
Chi si trova infatti a custodir le leggi,
senza un difensore, è privo d'ogni forza.
- Language
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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: 213
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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." |
| 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: 39-42
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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: 348
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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: 245-249
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: 94
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| Number of verses |
5 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[34725] καὶ θεσμοθέτας | εἴπερ ἠυτύχει πόλις
[1203]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
(f. 298r)
(5 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, 375: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (5.67.4)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/34722 |
