Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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• Having been instructed in the outstanding works of the wisdom of the Ausonians
  and in files and phalanxes and unbroken battle-lines
  of close-massed hoplites, indeed of mighty chariot marshalls,
  in the pages of history by well-born kings,
  having been shown to be the all supreme leader of the Ausonians' army,
  having defeated Chambdan, you despoil the Arab race,
  and if ever you wish to learn about swift-moving ships
  so that, far from war at sea, you may recall doughty deeds,
  gaze with your eyes, best [of men], on all the thoughts [contained] duly
  in this book and cast them within your mind.
  Then indeed, Basil, you will sack the plain of Crete
  and destroy the race of great-hearted Carthaginians.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  J. Pryor, E. Jeffreys, 2006, The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: the Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204, Leiden: 523

• Tu che, apprese del genio ausonio le sublimi imprese,
  le falangi, le schiere e gli infrangibili
  fronti d'opliti e fanti e forti cavalieri
  negli scritti d'arte militare, da nobili sovrani
  indicato duce supremo dell'ausonio esercito,
  sconfitto Chambdan Taraba gente stermini,
  tu se mai voglia delle veloci navi avere scienza,
  finch lungi da pugna gloriose imprese mediti,
  di questo libro, o prode, le notizie tutte
  con gli occhi tuoi ben mira e nella mente poni.
  E bene allor devasterai, Basilio, il pian di Creta,
  e di Cartagine superba perir farai la stirpe.

  Language

  Italian

  Source(s)

  C. Mazzucchi 1978, Dagli anni di Basilio Parakimomenos (Cod. Ambr. B 119 sup.), Aevum, 52(2), 267-316: 302

• In Naumachica composita, jubente Basilio Patricio et Sacri Cubiculi Praeposito.
  Ausoniorum sapientiae doctus summopere artes,
  et ordines atque phalanges et infragiles acies
  armatorum, peditum, robustorum tum equitum
  historicis paginis, a nobilibus regibus
  dictus Ausoniorum exercitus omnino-supremus imperator,
  Chambdam qui-superasti, Arabum genus occidisti:
  navium autem cito-currentium peritus-fieri si olim vis,
  praeterea navalis-pugnae ut gloriosa moliaris opera,
  libri hujusce, optime, sententias omnes, ut parest,
  oculis tuis speculare, et mentibus injice tuis.
  Inde quidem, Basilie, solum Cretae vastabis,
  et genus pessumdabis Carthaginienium magnanimorum.

  Language

  Latin

  Source(s)

  E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 412

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