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Occurrence 36119

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	κ(αὶ) τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα \| τὴν ψαμμηνίτου,
	κ(αὶ) \| τὴν λαλιὰν τῆς σιγῆς \| τιμῶ πλέον·
	ἡ μὲν γὰρ \| ἀτέκμαρτον ἴσχει τὸ \| τέλος·
	ὅ δ’ ἐκκαλύπτει \| καὶ σοφῆς φρενὸς χά\|ριν·
	καμοῦσαν ἄμ\|φω κ(αὶ) σιγὴν καὶ τὸν \| λόγον

Type(s)	[35865] Καὶ τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα τὴν Ψαμμηνίτου (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 23r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.14.10.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psamtik III of Egypt (600 BC-551 BC - 525 BC)
Image source(s)	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/84c05e77-78a8-4190-bfd9-fe35270aa8f6/surfaces/1190947b-6158-4659-8b2c-47db121a3208/
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 71 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: 86-87
Number of verses	5
Related occurrence(s)	[35867] (καὶ) τ(ὴν) σιγ(ὴν) τέθηπα \| τ(ὴν) ψαμμηνίτου [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 93v) (5 verses) (5/5) [36000] κ(αὶ) τ(ὴν) σιγὴν τέ\|θηπα τὴν ψαμ\|μηνίτου [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 91v) (5 verses) (5/5) [36058] (καὶ) τὴν σιγὴν τέ\|θηπα τὴν ψαμμη\|νίτου [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 93v) (5 verses) (5/5) [36153] καὶ τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα \| τὴν ψαμμηνίτου [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 89r) (5 verses) (5/5) [35960] (καὶ) τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα \| τὴν ψαμμηνίτου [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 139r) (5 verses) (5/5) [36074] (καὶ) τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα τ(...) \| ψαμμηνίτου [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 64r) (5 verses) (5/5) [36011] (καὶ) τ(ὴν) σιγὴν τέ\|θηπα τ(ὴν) ψαμ\|μηνίτου [1420-1430] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 88 [1420-1430] (f. 56r) (5 verses) (5/5) [36109] κ(αὶ) τὴν σιγ(ὴν) τέθη\|πα τ(ὴν) ψαμμηνίτου [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 124r) (5 verses) (5/5) [36027] (καὶ) τὴν σιγὴν τέθηπα \| τὴν ψαμμηνίτου [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 47r) (5 verses) (5/5) display 6 more occurrences (9 in total) hide 6 occurrences (9 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(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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