Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 32851

Ὡς ἀντεβλήθη ταῦτα τοῖς πρωτογράφοις
ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐφευρέθησαν ἰσχύϊ λόγων,
Τζέτζου κατεστρώθησαν ἐν τῷ σεκρέτῳ,
ὑπογραφὴν δ᾽ ἔσχηκεν ἥν τινα βλέπεις.
Τζέτζης λογιστὴς τῶν παλαιῶν καὶ νέων.
Title(s) Ioannis Tzetzes, Subscriptio
Text source A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60, 652-690: 682-683
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Tag(s) Self-presentation
Translation(s) As they were collated with the original,
and invented by the power of words,
these texts were deposited in the archive of Tzetzes,
and obtained the signature you see here:
Tzetzes, auditor of the ancients and moderns.
Language
English
Source(s)
A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60, 652-690: 683
Bibliography

Primary

P. Leone 1969, Ioannis Tzetzae Iambi, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 6, 127-156: 146
Number of verses 5
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
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