Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31518

	τὸ σ(ὸν) σκοτειν(ὸν) (καὶ) τὸ τοῦ \| βιβλογράφου,: \|
	χάρυβδ(ιν) οἵαν ἐξεγείρουσι \| λόγοις:
	λοιπ(ὸν) τὰ \| πολλὰ σ(ῶν) π(αρα)τρέχ(ων) λόγ(ων), \|
	τὰ συμφανῆ σύμπασ(ιν), \| ἐγγράψω μόνα: \|
	τὰ (?) γ(αρ) σολοικιζοντ(α), \| πικρ(ὸν) δεικνύειν +

Type(s)	[31514] Τὸ σὸν σκοτεινὸν καὶ τὸ τοῦ βιβλογράφου (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1146-1155
Manuscript	HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950]
Place in Manuscript	f. 185r
Person(s)	Scribe John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin. The scholium is linked by a signe-de-renvoi to the words 'ὅσας πόλεις παρέδοσαν' in the main text (Thuc. 5.18.5), where the scribe of the main text has written the ligature for the consonant cluster 'σπ' twice without taking the semantic boundaries into account.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to Thucydides' Histories 5.18.5.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec252/0381
Bibliography	Primary K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 298 M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 37-39, 116-117 T. Mészáros 2013, Byzantine Metrical Scholia on Thucydides, in P. Fodor, G. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács (eds.), More modoque: die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident; Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, Budapest, 67-76: 73 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 75-76 M. Luzzatto 1998, Leggere i classici nella biblioteca imperiale: note tzetziane su antichi codici, Quaderni di Storia, 48, 69-86: 79
Number of verses	5
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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