Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 35840

	Ἀνεκτὸς ἦν Ἅμασις τῇ σπουδῇ νέμων
	μικροῦ τριτημόριον ἡμέρας χρόνου·
	οἱ γὰρ παρ’ ἡμῖν τυραννοῦντες ἐκτόπως,
	πάννυχον ἅμα καὶ πανήμερον χρόνον
	ταῖς παιδιαῖς προσεῖχον ἢ καὶ ταῖς μέθαις,
	ἀνδραπόδων βιοῦντες ἐμπαθῆ βίον·
	ἐξ ὧν τὸ κάλλος τῆς νέας Ῥωμαΐδος
	γηραλέα συνέσχε ῥυτὶς ἀθρόον·
	ἡ βασιλὶς δὲ καὶ πασῶν ὑπερτάτη,
	λῃστῶν ὑπῆρξε δυσμενῶν κατοικία.

Title(s)	Scholium in Herodotum (2.173)
Text source	J. Bértola 2023, A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its Apographa, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 72, 63-96: 84-85
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Amasis II of Egypt (600 BC-575 BC - 526 BC)
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Amasis was bearable, as he devoted to serious issues one third of the short time of the day, since those who ruled excessively as tyrants among us paid attention all night and all day long to amusements or to drunkenness, living a life enslaved to passion. Because of them, the beauty of the new Rome was suddenly affected by a wrinkle of old age and the capital superior to all became the abode of hostile robbers. 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: 69-70 J. Bértola 2023, A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its Apographa, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 72, 63-96: 84-85 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: 349
Comment	Text of Bértola (2023: 84-85) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 68-69 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: 357 Secondary 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: 349-350
Number of verses	10
Occurrence(s)	[35842] ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμων [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [March 1318] (f. 87v) (10 verses) [35974] ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασ(ις) \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμω(ν) [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 85v) (10 verses) [36055] ἀνεκτὸς \| ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ \| νέμων [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [August 1440] (f. 87r) (2 verses) [36136] ἀνεκτος ἦν ἅμασις \| τῇ σπουδῇ νέμων [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 83r-83v) (10 verses) [36126] ἀνεκτὸς ἦν ἅμα\|σις τῆ σπουδῆ νέ\|μων [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 58r) (10 verses) [35941] ἀνεκτὸς ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέ\|μων [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [June 1372] (f. 130v) (10 verses) [36071] ἀνεκτὸς ἦν ἅμασις τῆ σπουδῆ \| νέμων [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 60r) (10 verses) [36104] ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμων [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 115v) (10 verses) [36016] ἀνεκτὸ(ς) ἦν ἅμασις \| τῆ σπουδῆ νέμ(ων) [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 44r) (10 verses) display 6 more occurrences (9 in total) hide 6 occurrences (9 in total)
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