Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 35728

	Τῆς διαλέκτου μὴ μαθὼν πεῖραν τάχα
	πέσῃς τὸ ῥῆμα καὶ λάβῃς λύπην γράφων.

Text source	J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 10
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Grammar
Tag(s)	Criticism of the scribe Polemic
Translation(s)	If perchance you have not learned any experience of the dialect you will stumble and you will get hurt in copying the verb. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 10
Bibliography	Primary R. Cantore, 2013, Per la storia del testo di Erodoto: studi sulla famiglia romana, Bologna: 137
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[35733] Τῆς διαλέκτου μὴ μαθὼν πεῖραν τάχα [951-1000] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2369 [951-1000] (f. 39r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 740: "Scholium in Herodotum (2.44.2)"
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Last modified: 2024-11-25.