Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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• Sweet is this bond for the gold-lovers.
  If it had oppressed their feet as a burden for the feet,
  it would have gladdened even more their hearts as it is made of gold.
  Oh, who will bring these fetters for them
  and thus render all of them prisoners,
  those who breathe in gold more ...?
  For none of them would have escaped the binding,
  nor would have been content with receiving one single fetter,
  but they would have been eager that together hands and neck and feet
  and every part of their bodies
  were tied up with golden fetters.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  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: 355

• This bond would have been sweet for the gold-lovers:
  if it had oppressed their feet as a burden for the feet,
  it would have gladdened even more their hearts as it was made of gold.
  Oh, who would bring these shackles for them
  and thus render all of them prisoners,
  those who breathe gold more than air?
  For none of them would have escaped the binding,
  nor would have been content with receiving one single shackle,
  but they would have been eager to have hands and neck and feet
  and every part of their bodies together
  tied up with golden shackles.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  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: 89

• Sweet is this bond for the gold-lovers:
  if it had oppressed their feet as a burden for the feet,
  it would have gladdened even more their hearts as it is made of gold.
  Oh, who will bring these fetters for them
  and thus render all of them prisoners,
  those who breathe in gold more <than air?>
  For none of them would escape the binding,
  nor would be content with receiving one single fetter,
  but he would be anxious that together hands and neck and feet
  and every part of his body
  were tied up with golden fetters.

  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: 74

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