Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades (Tz.H.)
Ioannes Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades, indexed places and people from a translation dependent on that of Ana Untila (Book I), Gary Berkowitz (Bks II-IV), Konstantinos Ramiotis (Bks V-VI), Vasiliki Dogani (Bks VII-VIII), Jonathan Alexander (Bks IX-X), Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman (Bk XI), and Nikolaos Giallousis (Bks XII-XIII) for Dr. Otilio Silva of www.mitologia.pt. Translations and line numbering are based on the 1826 Greek edition of Theophilus Kiesslingius, downloadable at Google Books. This edition is superseded by that of P.A.M. Leone (1968/2007) with slightly different line numbers. The original translations are online at theoi.com, under Creative Common license Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0. Permission to use a corrected version of this translation for ToposText was not granted. This text has 1648 tagged references to 423 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001; Wikidata ID: Q3624946; Trismegistos: [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ i Tzetzes wrote this personalized, idiosyncratic, bitter/playful manual of cultural references partly on Imbros, with limited access to books, in the mid-12th century CE. He offers here, often from memory, tantalizing snippets of authors and works now lost to us, along with scatological assaults on rival intellectuals in Constantinople. He is writing, however, about a very dim past indeed, and that encyclopedic memory betrays him often enough to make him horrendously unreliable as a guide to history.
The manuscript version in print is a collection of 668 numbered topoi or historiai from history, philology, rhetoric, and mythology, punctuated with autobiographical rants, condensed into 12759 lines of (mostly) 15-syllable political verse, a modernish meter that uses stress accents rather than syllable length.
Their purpose is to illuminate the literary and other allusions in a series of letters Tzetzes published. The first 141 “histories” gloss a relentless flow of learned references in the “epistolion” (little letter), 308 lines in verse cautioning rival grammarian Lachanas against ingratitude and triumphalism. Tzetzes included the epistolion at Book 4, lines 472-786. The remaining stories provide explanatory footnotes to a volume of 107 letters in prose addressed to various personalities of the day and not included in this text (see Leone 1972 for the Greek edition). Tzetzes was responding to numbered lists (pinakes) quoting brief phrases from the letters, in the order they appeared. These lists have many overlaps and duplications due to Tzetzes' reuse of favorite historical allusions (e.g. Croesus). To save paper and time, Tzetzes summarized and cross-referenced overlapping allusions, citing the list numbers (hyperlinked below). Finding himself with a blank page at the end of his last list, he threw in some dubious biographic details on Homer.
The misleading modern name “Chiliades” or “Thousands” is inspired by an early editor's arbitrary division of the text into thirteen 1000-line “books” that ignore the work's internal logic.
CHILIADES OR BOOK OF HISTORIES BY JOHN TZETZES
[The first lines are the ToposText editor's attempt to illustrate “political” meter in English.]
§ 1.1 Book of History of Ioannis Tzetzes in Political Verses (called Alpha) [or] Historiai of Ioannes the Grammarian Tzetzes from the things referred to in one of his letters.
My dearest friend, you ask to learn both scholarship unerring
And all that history can teach from this one single letter;
Attention give, accordingly, first to the tale of Croesus.
§ 1.4 (T1) CONCERNING CROESUS
Croesus was Alyattes' son, the ruler of the Lydians,
Whose capital and palace were establishéd at Sardis;
By which the flowing Pactolus, the rain-fed golden river,
From Tmolus mountain washéd down a waterfall of gold dust.
[end metrical translation]
Croesus became richest in gold of all kings.
Living delicately in wealth and countless treasures.
Friendly to everybody, he was also generous.
As Pindar the son of Daiphantus reports,
When Alcmaeon came to see Croesus once
§ 1.10 He bid him take gold, as much as he could carry.
Alcmaeon dressed himself in a very wide-breasted robe
And the wide-soled boots of tragic actors.
He entered the treasury and filled them with gold,
Up to his hair, holding it with his teeth.
Alcmaeon couldn't walk - the gold weighed so much.
The sight moved Croesus to laughter.
He told him to take two times more in addition.
While this is what Pindar the lyric poet wrote somewhere,
The writer Herodotus, the son of Oxylus,
§ 1.20 And Plutarch as well, describe Croesus
Sending to Delphi a thousand bricks of solid gold
To build a golden altar for Apollo.
Once he invited Solon, the lawmaker,
To Sardis, to spend time at his palace.
He showed him his treasures, and boasting over them he urged
That he account him blessed, renowned among the fortunate.
But Solon the philosopher, the law-giver,
Did not hold him blessed, and Croesus asked him:
“Where, Solon, do you know someone happier than I?”
§ 1.30 He replied, indeed I do, the general Tellus
And Cleobis and Biton, the sons of Cydippe.
The first one, Tellus the general, after defeating his enemies
Was glorified by many for his brilliant victory;
He was fortunate to die the very evening of his victory.
The children of Cydippe, the priestess of Hera,
Because their mother was sick, yoked themselves like oxen
And brought their mother to the Heraion precinct.
Their mother prayed for the best for them.
Both of them died that night, meeting a most beautiful end.
[For the remainder of the translation see theoi.com]
§ 1.40 “These ones I call happy, Croesus ...
§ 1.50 He was snatched away from the fire when Cyrus ...
§ 1.60 Since he had enough horsemen, he left off hunting
And began to plunder the borders of Media ...
§ 1.70 Whose king was Abradatas ...
§ 1.80 And drove toward Sardis ...
§ 1.110 Instead, driving his chariot by the oracles an anchor held him.
He founded the Galatian ...
§ 1.120 Such a one was Midas ...
§ 1.130 And thus fell under the myth that he had Ass’s Ears. ...
§ 1.150 And told him “Make a choice:
Either kill Candaules ...
§ 1.160 The proud copper horse ...
§ 1.190 But most noble of soul.
For once when the Laconians ...
§ 1.241 (T11) CONCERNING HYACINTHUS
Hyacinthus ...
§ 1.250 But the allegory of Narcissus ...
§ 1.260 As if the sun rejoiced, turning to the young man
And the breath of the winds was charmed by him. ...
§ 1.267 To ask me to write for you the actual words of the wise
Is inopportune, ...
§ 1.280 And if I live a meager life, being first of my lineage; ...
§ 1.290 You know now our nature and our state of mind. ...
§ 1.299 In his Theriaca, Nicander ...
§ 1.340 Their allegorical meaning has been stated often. ...
§ 1.360 “Often the pine makes moan on the spot
Where Phoebus ...
§ 1.370 He was the son of Hyagnis ...
§ 1.400 His death-song; he took up his lyre
(In cithara-singing there are seven modes in all). ...
§ 1.440 Atreus was about to show it to the judges. ...
§ 1.450 He showed him afterwards their legs and arms and drove him away from the country. ...
§ 1.460 They forced Thyestes ...
§ 1.480 He said he would have the Cretan ...
§ 1.500 As accomplices in his wife's adultery. ...
§ 1.520 Minos, who was not permitted to be the ruler before, ...
§ 1.530 Where she had a baby; since the child had two fathers, ...
§ 1.550 He received the gifts and went hunting. ...
§ 1.560 He says there was a commander named Alopex [Fox]
Who was fighting against the Thebans ...
§ 1.570 Or else Alopex escaped with his ships
With Cyn in pursuit, ...
§ 1.580 For which the crown for the victors was a shoot of wild olive. ...
§ 1.594 (T23) CONCERNING ARISTOPATIRA
Aristopatira ...
§ 1.600 They passed through the theater in splendid procession, ...
§ 1.610 I am not like the other women.
You see, ...
§ 1.630 Simonides wrote a thankful epigram
Upon the dead man’s tomb. ...
§ 1.640 (T25) CONCERNING STESICHORUS
Stesichorus ...
§ 1.650 He even made a door on one side of the bull ...
§ 1.671 Stesichorus was an enemy to this Phalaris ...
§ 1.680 Stesichorus’ daughters made hymns about Phalaris ...
§ 1.690 “Hurrah! Be glad, you, triumphant king Heracles ...
§ 1.710 His head was seen by the Iberians ...
§ 1.720 Such was his strength; he was dragged by the waters. ...
§ 1.730 He caught the brightest and the smartest of the young men
About one hundred or maybe more; ...
§ 1.740 He went to get ready the Sicilians ...
§ 1.750 His brother Hasdrubal ...
§ 1.770 The soldiers did not stop fighting but fearlessly continued. ...
§ 1.780 They were afraid their roots would be vanished. ...
§ 1.790 Then, he left for the third time to marshal against Rome ...
§ 1.800 He expected to find death in Libyssa, ...
§ 1.806 (T28) CONCERNING BUCEPHALUS
You already know Bucephalus ...
§ 1.812 (T29) CONCERNING THE HIMATION OF ANTISTHENES THE SYBARITE
Such was the himation of Antisthenes ...
§ 1.826 (T31) CONCERNING THE BRIDGE MANDROCLES BUILT IN THE HELLESPONTINE BOSPORUS
Mandrocles ...
§ 1.830 Darius disembarked countless soldiers in Europe. ...
§ 1.840 It also includes the Bebrycian ...
§ 1.870 He boiled over with anger and for three whole years, ...
§ 1.880 Daily food for his whole army
Was four hundred talents, ...
§ 1.890 He gave the sea two hundred lashes.
And hurled two pairs of iron foot-fetters
Into the sea as if binding a slave. ...
§ 1.900 They were stretched tight from each shore, ...
§ 1.910 Imitating his own father, Dareius ...
§ 1.920 A marble throne was built, a theater for Xerxes ...
§ 1.930 Xerxes took nothing of this, ...
§ 1.940 At first he thought himself blessed by prosperity, ...
§ 1.950 The army was crossing on an unvarying basis
Numbering seven whole days and nights. ...
§ 1.960 Stood up against them near Artemision ...
§ 1.970 And was cutting them all down until the sun's rays. ...
§ 1.980 Sitting on a golden throne he watched the battle. ...
§ 1.990 And their Greek allies much emboldened. ...
§ 2.1 Barely, after a myriad misfortunes, he crossed to Asia ...
§ 2.10 He who destroyed the splendid youth of Persis ...
§ 2.16 CHILIADES BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ
(T33 ...
§ 2.20 And particularly Gaius Julius ...
§ 2.30 To show a light of safety to cargo vessels in the waves. ...
§ 2.40 Nerva, an old man, ...
§ 2.50 Calling from the acropolis these words exactly:
“For the good fortune of the Senate and people of the Romans
And my own, ...
§ 2.60 Who had rebelled, withholding tribute to the Romans, ...
§ 2.70 The stones stand one hundred and seventy feet
Apart from one another, ...
§ 2.80 Destroyed the bridge ...
§ 2.90 And eparch of this reigning city [Constantinople ...
§ 2.102 (T35) CONCERNING ARCHIMEDES AND SOME OF HIS MACHINES
Wise Archimedes ...
§ 2.110 Was attacking Syracuse ...
§ 2.120 And in a space equal to the mirror
Set small fourfold mirrors, ...
§ 2.130 “Give me where to stand and my lever will move the whole earth.”
This man (according to Diodorus ...
§ 2.140 “Stand away, o man, from my diagram.”
But as the Roman was dragging him, ...
§ 2.150 And with them, many men mention Archimedes ...
§ 2.157 (T36) CONCERNING HERACLES [relying heavily on Pseudo-Apollodorus, ...
§ 2.170 When, Alcmena was at the point of childbirth by him, ...
§ 2.180 Or the one child held back, the other born unfinished, ...
§ 2.190 But rather since Iphicles ...
§ 2.200 Seized by much love for Alcmena ...
§ 2.220 As a monstrosity they erupted into the places referred to. ...
§ 2.240 These men Heracles ...
§ 2.250 Heracles, though not being present, ...
§ 2.260 That arouses, frequently, many occasions for malice, ...
§ 2.268 Next, Heracles goes to the Erymanthian Boar ...
§ 2.290 For the sixth labour, with a bronze rattle and his bow, ...
§ 2.299 Eighth, the man-slaying horses ...
§ 2.310 Since Admete, ...
§ 2.320 For the tenth labour, the purple cows ...
§ 2.330 Out of Erytheia ...
§ 2.340 Driving the cows ...
§ 2.350 Having crossed to the Ionian ...
§ 2.360 The guard of these apples was a sleepless dragon, ...
§ 2.372 Heeding the counsels of Prometheus ...
§ 2.380 Saying the nymphs were the seasons, the apples the stars, ...
§ 2.388 So then, having brought the apples to Eurystheus ...
§ 2.400 Covered only by his lion ...
§ 2.412 Now then, after the aforementioned labours, ...
§ 2.420 Who had just saved Alcestis ...
§ 2.430 The daughter of Iardanus ...
§ 2.470 After plundering Oechalia ...
§ 2.480 For the blood of Nessus ...
§ 2.490 Cutting together with words, Quintus ...
§ 2.500 Tenth, he drove the Cattle ...
§ 2.520 As Samson was greatly angry at the affair, ...
§ 2.530 Killed a thousand of them with a jawbone of a donkey ...
§ 2.540 Had their strength in these hairs they. ...
§ 2.550 But Samson, groaning deeply from his much-affected heart, ...
§ 2.569 (T40) CONCERNING AEGON, ...
§ 2.580 As Theocritus relates, ...
§ 2.600 A ten-amphora jug, though calling it a one-amphora size; ...
§ 2.610 “Nor was anyone swifter than vigorous Iphiclus ...
§ 2.620 (Just as even Orion ...
§ 2.641 (T45) CONCERNING PERICLYMENUS
Periclymenus ...
§ 2.650 The quickness of leopards, the great strength of lions ...
§ 2.660 And to be meat for beasts in inaccessible mountains. ...
§ 2.700 For in this way the stars of the Twins rise. ...
§ 2.710 Even, in addition to them, Stasinus ...
§ 2.717 (T49) CONCERNING AETHALIDES
Aethalides ...
§ 2.730 Aristeas, having appeared again after seven years, ...
§ 2.750 (For the Molossians ...
§ 2.759 (T52) CONCERNING PROTESILAUS
This Protesilaus ...
§ 2.770 That the above mentioned wife of Protesilaus ...
§ 2.780 She died with her good and newly married husband, ...
§ 2.800 But in no way reporting his misfortune to his friend
Admetus ...
§ 2.820 And when Admetus lamented more and did not cease, ...
§ 2.830 After marching against Pherae ...
§ 2.840 For neither do I want alien works to be made my own, ...
§ 2.850 Was delighted by Orpheus ...
§ 2.860 “If he should wish to know, he will learn both as many
Secret things as men contrive in their breasts, ...
§ 2.868 (T55 CONCERNING THALES, ...
§ 2.880 Wherefore some even called those people “before the Moon ...
§ 2.888 [T56] Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus ...
§ 2.892 [T57] Clazomenian ...
§ 2.898 [T58] And Empedocles ...
§ 2.910 And again, if you should wish, you will bring in avenging blows, ...
§ 2.925 (T60) CONCERNING APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Apollonius ...
§ 2.930 Apollonius drove out of Byzantium ...
§ 2.940 As this is happening, destruction falls on the barbarians, ...
§ 2.950 This man spoke in advance also of an earthquake for the city of Antioch ...
§ 2.960 Apollonius was thrown in prison, ...
§ 2.970 I know countless things of this man Apollonius ...
§ 2.980 (T61) CONCERNING DEMOCRITUS
Abderan Democritus ...
§ 2.990 Since he knew such a wise man on account of them. ...
§ 3.1 CHILIADES BOOK 3, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ
(T62 ...
§ 3.50 With firebrands always succeeding that illumination, ...
§ 3.60 Old contemporary Syracusan ...
§ 3.70 “He rules over many lands, and many seas. ...
§ 3.76 (T68) CONCERNING GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR
Gaius Julius Caesar ...
§ 3.90 Using riddles to show by example the lack of cohesion in fortune. ...
§ 3.100 And Callisthenes with them, ...
§ 3.110 Cato was his son’s teacher in subjects
Greek and Roman, ...
§ 3.120 Of exercises, horsemanship, and every type of armed fighting. ...
§ 3.130 In this way Cato was rearing his son decently in all things, ...
§ 3.140 He made victory doubtful for the Romans; ...
§ 3.150 Was a brother of Capito ...
§ 3.160 Used to lift me up and push me forward more
Than a month’s time of the other teachers; ...
§ 3.170 But if anyone even wants to understand what sort of man Cato ...
§ 3.180 This dryness had met with both of us because of a lack of washing; ...
§ 3.190 To not be overpowered by money, and I am attended by a fire breathing spirit
For just things, ...
§ 3.200 And I will deliver the fatherland of cruel tyrants.”
Even for me there is some such a spirit for just things, ...
§ 3.210 And at the Cretan ...
§ 3.220 Who, being blind like Aman, makes all things blind. ...
§ 3.232 (T71-T73)CONCERNING CATO, ...
§ 3.233 [T72] Solon, ...
§ 3.236 [T73] Now the physician Theodorus ...
§ 3.249 (T75) CONCERNING POLYMESTOR
Polymestor ...
§ 3.270 Ajax himself becomes murderer for himself. ...
§ 3.272 (T77-T88 CONCERNING AGAMEMNON, ...
§ 3.278 Agamemnon turned out as king of all Greeks. ...
§ 3.280 [T78] And Diomedes ...
§ 3.291 [T79] Idomeneus, ...
§ 3.299 [T80] I pass in silence over Amphiaraus ...
§ 3.310 [T82] I omit Aegeus ...
§ 3.313 (T83 and T84) CONCERNING THE CAPTIVITY OF THE CHILDREN OF CLEOPATRA AND THE SON OF PERSEUS
I omit describing the children of Cleopatra ...
§ 3.316 (T85) CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF MAURICE, ...
§ 3.320 [T86] I omit telling how Phocas ...
§ 3.322 [T87] Gelimer was a king of the Mauretanian nations, ...
§ 3.330 The former, so that I can represent in tragedy my heavy misfortune, ...
§ 3.339 CONCERNING BELISARIUS THE GENERAL (T88 ...
§ 3.349 CONCERNING DARIUS WHOM ALEXANDER DEFEATED, ...
§ 3.360 Then shutting him in a small, very narrow hut, ...
§ 3.370 By the Romans, were trying to hand over the city into slavery. ...
§ 3.380 From the beneficiaries, Xanthippus ...
§ 3.390 A household slave, bringing around a wooden corpse at the meals, ...
§ 3.339 (T94) CONCERNING DARIUS THE FATHER OF XERXES
In a loose manner, ...
§ 3.411 (T95) CONCERNING BELESYS THE BABYLONIAN AND ARSACES THE MEDE AND THE TAKING DOWN OF SARDANAPALUS THE ASSYRIAN
Belesys ...
§ 3.420 And wearing the clothing that women also wear, ...
§ 3.430 And in the first assault, they were defeated immediately; ...
§ 3.450 Diodorus Siculus even writes the epigram of Sardanapalus ...
§ 3.470 When, therefore, Darius ...
§ 3.480 But Darius himself, ...
§ 3.490 But Histiaeus, ...
§ 3.510 And brings him away with him to the land of Susa ...
§ 3.520 Learning of this, Darius ...
§ 3.530 Having caused more confusion to the cities that were never at rest, ...
§ 3.540 At last, having cried excessively, Darius ...
§ 3.550 Once Darius suffered a rupture while hunting, ...
§ 3.570 (For reasons which I spoke of previously), ...
§ 3.580 For to begin with, to Cyaxares ...
§ 3.590 Enough to satisfy the most insatiable soul, ...
§ 3.600 But some Mede, a lover of music, upon hearing this, ...
§ 3.620 And Gadatas (another young man in the prime of life, ...
§ 3.640 And why do I say to you that Cyrus ...
§ 3.660 As Araspas was about to be dead from shame; ...
§ 3.670 In the exact word, becomes numbered among the spies, ...
§ 3.680 To Abradatas, ...
§ 3.700 And from her most beautiful feminine adornment, ...
§ 3.710 Was marshalling together the army for the onslaught of war, ...
§ 3.720 The entire plane was flashing with brazen fire then
As the army was equipping itself for an outbreak of war, ...
§ 3.730 To advance from there, and says to Abradatas ...
§ 3.740 He at once ascended onto his chariot. ...
§ 3.750 And on his left, Arisbas ...
§ 3.760 And these men died there, chopped up, ...
§ 3.770 Is said to convey it here to you, Cyrus ...
§ 3.780 Crying and weeping much, he spoke to the woman:
“Even you will not be destitute, ...
§ 3.790 Now she (telling the eunuchs to stand just a little bit away, ...
§ 3.800 Measured out their lives in their longing for their mistress, ...
§ 3.810 But only after Heracles ...
§ 3.818 (T101) CONCERNING HORATIUS COCLES
Horatius Cocles ...
§ 3.830 CONCERNING MARCUS MANLIUS AND ABOUT GEESE, ...
§ 3.840 Guards in the Palatine on account of the guarding then, ...
§ 3.856 I am leaving out the story of the brave Marcus Coriolanus ...
§ 3.862 Marcus Corvinus was surnamed Corvinus, ...
§ 3.862 I am leaving out Curtius ...
§ 3.869 I am leaving out Kalandos, and Nonnus, ...
§ 3.890 I omit to add a myriad Greeks and barbarians
Who were mindful of benefactions, ...
§ 3.892 (T112) CONCERNING OSYMANDYAS, ...
§ 3.910 And previously, pursuing the beast heedlessly, ...
§ 3.920 But they were not following near its side, ...
§ 3.930 Therefore, hardly bringing this beast at that time to Ptolemy ...
§ 3.940 Aelian says that Onesicritus ...
§ 3.950 CONCERNING THE DOG OF NICOMEDES, IT HAS TEN STORIES INSTEAD OF ONE (T115 ...
§ 3.960 Many include even the crocodile, and some even sea-monsters; ...
§ 3.970 Was frolicking with the king, he thought she was an enemy, ...
§ 3.980 Wrapped completely in a garment made of gold. ...
§ 3.1000 CHILIADES BOOK 4, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ
CONCERNING THE LOVE OF A DOLPHIN (T117 ...
§ 4.10 And Aelian relates things somewhat like these things, ...
§ 4.20 There both of them expiring, ended their life. ...
§ 4.24 ABOUT ARION THE METHYMNAEAN
About Arion ...
§ 4.40 As it was streaming downwards from the junction beside the yoke for both of them.”
§ 4.41 CONCERNING THE SHARED SYMPATHY OF ANIMALS
To tell of the shared sympathy of animals
To other animals, ...
§ 4.45 (T119) CONCERNING THE MUTUAL LOVE OF JACKDAWS AND STARLINGS
Jackdaws love each other, ...
§ 4.49 (T120) CONCERNING CRANES AND GEESE
Cranes also love one another, ...
§ 4.60 Undertake the flight and passage towards Egypt ...
§ 4.70 The protectors within those times stand on one foot, ...
§ 4.75 (T121) CONCERNING DEER AND WOLVES
Even deer watch over a mutually loving sharing. ...
§ 4.83 (T122) CONCERNING ELEPHANTS
For other reasons, ...
§ 4.90 When their own fathers are old, they feed them; ...
§ 4.100 But when newborn elephants fall completely in the deep ditches…
Those falling perish together, ...
§ 4.103 (T123) CONCERNING LIONS, ...
§ 4.108 (T124) CONCERNING MARES
Mares, ...
§ 4.110 (T125) CONCERNING BEES
Bees are ruled by kings and are managed in an orderly manner. ...
§ 4.120 Another group to house build, and others to do other things. ...
§ 4.131 (T126) CONCERNING LAND MICE, ...
§ 4.140 It might become far from the beast, with the hook cut. ...
§ 4.150 Now the land dog honours its first offspring. ...
§ 4.170 But this story of Icarius ...
§ 4.180 Who slew her and Icarius ...
§ 4.190 At that time, even this above-mentioned dog ...
§ 4.200 (T130) CONCERNING THE DOG OF SILANION THE ROMAN
The little letter ...
§ 4.211 (T131) CONCERNING THE DOG OF PYRRHUS THE EPIROTAN AND OF ANOTHER SIMILAR
The king Pyrrhus ...
§ 4.220 And punished this man with crucifixion. ...
§ 4.227 [T132?] Since we mentioned dogs ...
§ 4.232 Of Calvus, a general of the Romans, ...
§ 4.240 The little dog sat down and started to protect it. ...
§ 4.250 For Darius the Later, ...
§ 4.261 With Daphnis, ...
§ 4.263 Now for Polus, ...
§ 4.270 Once a wolf saved this man from death. ...
§ 4.288 (T134) CONCERNING EAGLES THAT DIED TOGETHER WITH THEIR MASTERS
Phylarchus ...
§ 4.300 Even this eagle, ...
§ 4.310 After it saw a snake ...
§ 4.313 (T135) CONCERNING SERPENTS LOVING AND PAYING COMPENSATION
The little letter ...
§ 4.320 Now this same thing happened to an Arcadian ...
§ 4.330 Now learn who Pindus ...
§ 4.370 He was thrown from the chariot and died in the streams of Eridanus ...
§ 4.380 And his female relatives mourned for him passionately. ...
§ 4.389 (T138) CONCERNING THE BRONZE COWS IN MOUNT ATABYRIUM
The little letter ...
§ 4.393 (T139) CONCERNING THE COMMOTION OF THE TOMBS OF CADMUS AND HARMONIA
The little letter ...
§ 4.400 (T140) CONCERNING MAGNESIA, ...
§ 4.410 To purify it of the oxidation again, ...
§ 4.416 (T141) CONCERNING NIOBE, ...
§ 4.430 But Zeus, then, ...
§ 4.440 “The sky possesses two large lights, ...
§ 4.450 Because, being without feeling as a result of every suffering, ...
§ 4.467 (TE1) Receive the little letter after the stories. ...
§ 4.472 To Lachanas the Zabareian: for indeed, ...
§ 4.480 For singing to the cithara, Terpander ...
§ 4.490 For Bucephalus, ...
§ 4.500 By a deep canal, of making Athos ...
§ 4.520 And, by both dying and living, Castor ...
§ 4.530 Who with only the heated exhalations of bread, ...
§ 4.540 Filling a whole artabas full of golden coins. ...
§ 4.550 Four hundred myriads minus seven thousand. ...
§ 4.560 Judge us unworthy of a written greeting, ...
§ 4.570 For when my fifteenth year was running near, ...
§ 4.580 Hecuba, Polymestor ...
§ 4.590 But by day was the teacher of lessons
With moderate blows, ...
§ 4.600 But I am distressed as I look down upon you harming yourself exceedingly. ...
§ 4.610 But after an investigation, he makes Syloson ...
§ 4.620 Osymandyas, ...
§ 4.630 But when Artybius ...
§ 4.640 And, I was telling, in turn, for Arion ...
§ 4.650 Only his dog, being more loyal than all, ...
§ 4.660 Now being with him at the inn, the dog ...
§ 4.670 I skip over the dogs ...
§ 4.680 Some boy in Patrae ...
§ 4.691 There was previously, a fig-tree beside us, ...
§ 4.700 It split apart the next day, from crown to root, ...
§ 4.708 Now for the Illyrians ...
§ 4.711 And why do I teach you about these small and narrow things?
Also magnetite, ...
§ 4.720 So lest you seem to me more lacking in affection than even these, ...
§ 4.730 Timotheus, ...
§ 4.740 Tullius Servius, ...
§ 4.750 Why do I chat to you about the majority of things, ...
§ 4.760 Who previously led into slavery the entire land of the barbarians?
And where is good Scipio ...
§ 4.770 And neither to exult in the cold vanities of life, ...
§ 4.781 OF THE SAME JOHN TZETZES, OTHER STORIES AND HISTORICAL WORDS OF THIS LETTER
Stories (of other letters of ours, ...
§ 4.784 (TE1.1 E1) [from letter 1] HISTORICAL WORD A: CONCERNING EPIPHYLLIS
Epiphyllis (On-a-leaf) is a very small cluster
That is able to conceal itself on a chance leaf. ...
§ 4.786 (TE1.2) CONCERNING BEKESELENOI
The Bekeselenoi being one history
Two exist and learn for me subtly and precisely. ...
§ 4.800 When the bodyguards of the king came, ...
§ 4.810 Some say, as I was saying, that the races of the Arcadians ...
§ 4.821 You have the whole story of the Bekeselenoi people, ...
§ 4.833 (TE1.3) CONCERNING THE BLITOMAMMAN
Previously, ...
§ 4.836 (TE1.4) CONCERNING MELITIDES AND OTHER FOOLS
The fools of old were countless in number, ...
§ 4.850 Just as the son of the Country-folk, ...
§ 4.860 He being loud-voiced even for a barbarian, ...
§ 4.872 (TE1.5) CONCERNING MAMMAKYTHOS
Mammakythos (blockhead) means the same as blitomamman, ...
§ 4.875 (TE1.6) CONCERNING ACCO
Acco was a foolish woman who, ...
§ 4.900 They throw their arms around one another and become among those who are most friendly, ...
§ 4.910 And Hades has power over the Molossians ...
§ 4.920 Is another allegory, and I said it is in Hesiod ...
§ 4.924 (TE1.9) CONCERNING THE SENDING AWAY OF ANACHARSIS, ...
§ 4.933 [TE1.10] Topos 10 in this series is missing.]
§ 4.940 And that, as a bride sitting in her bridal chamber, ...
§ 4.950 (Now this Piraeus ...
§ 4.960 (TE1.12) CONCERNING THE COVERT BOW-SHOOTING OF PARIS
Paris Alexander ...
§ 4.965 (TE1.13) CONCERNING RHESUS, ...
§ 4.970 “Not one man, good in soul, deems it worthy, ...
§ 4.980 Until: “For I have not shivered at combat, ...
§ 4.982 (TE1.15) CONCERNING “FOR I WISH NOT TO BE SUPPOSED BEST, ...
§ 4.990 As one man will be marshalled against the so-and-so of the Argives ...
§ 4.996 (TE1.16) CONCERNING ACHILLES AMONG THE VIRGIN DAUGHTERS OF LYCOMEDES
The more recent of the race of poets form these things, ...
§ 4.1002 [5.1] And sending him to the virgin daughter of Lycomedes ...
§ 5.9 CHILIADES BOOK 5, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS
CONCERNING THE SHOUT OF THE TROJANS AND THE SILENCE OF THE GREEKS (TE1.17 ...
§ 5.17 (TE1.18) CONCERNING THE VERSE: “BUT I COMMAND YOU TO LEAVE AND GO BACK TO THE CROWD”
Thus spoke Achilles ...
§ 5.40 Learn the allegory behind this -for who will leave without benefit
from one of Tzetzes ...
§ 5.50 In the end, Lycurgus ...
§ 5.60 In no way would I desire a fight against such a man.”
Lycurgus ...
§ 5.80 They even scorned their own mother, who told them:
“You have not yet crossed paths with a man of the Melampygoi (black-bottoms).”
So, ...
§ 5.90 They saw Heracles ...
§ 5.100 (TE1.21) CONCERNING CACUS
This man, ...
§ 5.120 The smell from the wine spread through the air, ...
§ 5.130 For this man, Heracles ...
§ 5.138 (TE1.23) CONCERNING ONE OF DIONYSIUS’ VERSES: “EVEN THE STUPIDEST OF MEN MOCK THEM”
This man, ...
§ 5.150 And so the former sold him.
But this one is also false; ...
§ 5.170 And gave them his own scripts to correct
Not sell them as slaves, ...
§ 5.186 So now you are holding the historiai of the first letter; ...
§ 5.200 The ones some plundered from the palaces, ...
§ 5.203 CONCERNING ATLAS: THE FIRST Story (TE2.1 E2 ...
§ 5.210 And then again in the Indian ...
§ 5.230 And, so, he fled from the land of Egypt ...
§ 5.250 Caused this confusions of terms in times ancient
Had it not been for the fire and light of Hermes ...
§ 5.260 And against Bousiris ...
§ 5.270 Its very creator.
That’s why they say that Atlas ...
§ 5.280 Namely forty six generations
And from Heracles ...
§ 5.290 (TE2.2) CONCERNING THE SAYING ABOUT THE “WELL-MASKED PRETEXT”
Know that these phrases are of exotic nature
And they have a feeling of decency and grandeur as well
And make speech seem of more elevated style. ...
§ 5.300 “Use no alluring pretext against me”. ...
§ 5.330 We will put together an army, prepare the cavalry
And cross the river Evrotas with ease. ...
§ 5.338 (TE2.5) CONCERNING SOLON, ...
§ 5.350 Seven years after Draco ...
§ 5.360 And leave his legislation to be tested, ...
§ 5.380 But when Solon did not at all praise him as a happy man, ...
§ 5.399 (TE2.7) CONCERNING THE UNICORN
The unicorn is a scent loving animal
And has a horn on its forehead. ...
§ 5.412 (TE2.8) CONCERNING THE BIRDS THAT ARE ALSO CALLED HARPIES
Ictinus is a type of bird that we also call Harpy ...
§ 5.422 (TE2.9) CONCERNING HOW LIONS NEVER TOUCH A CORPSE
Lions are predators and, ...
§ 5.430 But I think their issue is that both animals are kings and arrogant as such, ...
§ 5.440 “As a lion he was pleased leaning over the corpse”
Don’t think, ...
§ 5.460 For disclosing the mysteries to the uninitiated, ...
§ 5.470 Others say that an unbridled tongue got him cast out, ...
§ 5.480 They say was what brought about Tantalus's method of punishment:
Cast out by the gods and suspended in the air, ...
§ 5.490 All laden with fruit.
But should he want to drink, ...
§ 5.500 (TE2.11) CONCERNING WHY EROS HAS A BOW, ...
§ 5.510 (TE2.12) CONCERNING UNJUST FATE ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS
In the book concerning the taking of Jerusalem ...
§ 5.520 And Perseus the deer and the bear among others. ...
§ 5.530 “Do you see how our empress’ beloved Mehlebe suffers?”
That cat ...
§ 5.540 And enjoys the same food and all the aforementioned. ...
§ 5.545 (TE2.13) THE OLD WORDS CHEIROMACTRON AND MAGDALIA
Cheiromactron is a linen used on the table
To clean the hands of dirt. ...
§ 5.550 (TE2.14) ON THE OLD TRADITION OF THOSE THAT WERE STILL ALIVE TO SAY THREE TIMES OUT LOUD THE NAME OF THE ONE THAT HAD DIED ABROAD, ...
§ 5.555 (TE2.15) CONCERNING THE OLD ROMAN TRADITION OF NOT GOING TO WARS UNDECLARED BUT ANNOUNCING THEM BEFOREHAND BY THROWING A SPEAR ON THE GROUND AND STARTING THUS THE WAR
The Roman and Latin ...
§ 5.564 (TE2.16) CONCERNING THE REASONS FOR WHICH THEY ARE CALLED AUSONES AND THEIR LAND’S EXTENT
Ausonia takes its name from the Ausonians ...
§ 5.583 (TE2.17) CONCERNING HOW JOHN TZETZES IS AN IBERIAN FROM HIS MOTHER’S SIDE BUT PURE GREEK FROM THE SIDE OF HIS FATHER
The mother of John Tzetzes ...
§ 5.590 Along with lady Mariam the Abasgian ...
§ 5.600 From one of his respectable wife’s consorts, ...
§ 5.610 He had three daughters and one of them, ...
§ 5.620 And the father of this last one was a scion of Byzantium ...
§ 5.629 (TE2.18) CONCERNING THE PHAESTIAN EPIMEDES' PROPHECY REGARDING MUNICHIA, ...
§ 5.640 Or as fluent in both the Egyptian ...
§ 5.650 And for another reason they call Cecrops ...
§ 5.660 And gave the city its name after Sais. ...
§ 5.670 He was Hephaestus’ and Athena ...
§ 5.682 (TE2.20) CONCERNING THE FACT THAT LEPREION IS A LOCATION, ...
§ 5.690 The words that end in –aios follow the ou– declension and always have a diphthong. ...
§ 5.710 And for those that immerse themselves in books about engineering, ...
§ 5.717 (TE2.22) CONCERNING THE WORD MORMOLYCEION
They say that once upon a time there were three Gorgons ...
§ 5.726 (TE2.23) CONCERNING THE WORD CATHARMA
Catharma meant the pharmakos in times of old. ...
§ 5.740 “After he has burnt the branches of the wild trees, ...
§ 5.750 We should provide him with dry figs and bread
And that kind of cheese pharmakoi eat.”
From days of yore they are used to waiting their fate with open mouths
And they hold branches from trees, ...
§ 5.760 The second the one who uses drugs for healing; ...
§ 5.770 She then threw the apple from a rooftop in the middle of the wedding ceremony
Causing great confusion and the destructive war between Greeks and Trojans ...
§ 5.777 (TE2.25) CONCERNING THE FACT THAT OSMYLUS IS A KIND OF FISH BUT OSMILUS REFERS TO THE SMELLY MAN
Osmylus ...
§ 5.781 (TE2.26) CONCERNING THE GRAMMARIAN, ...
§ 5.790 For the Indians ...
§ 5.796 (TE2.27) CONCERNING BELESYS THE BABYLONIAN AND ARSACES THE MEDE
There was a man with the name of Belesys ...
§ 5.804 (TE2.28) CONCERNING PALAMEDES, ...
§ 5.820 Wake up in the early morning and go visit holy Pythia ...
§ 5.837 (TE2.31 E6) CONCERNING TEUCRUS, ...
§ 5.850 But the giver prevented him from sending it to the god, ...
§ 5.860 He also wrote to Teucrus ...
§ 5.870 “Polycleitus the doctor, ...
§ 5.880 And he also asks from him not to request money, ...
§ 5.890 He sent to Phalaris ...
§ 5.900 “I spared them for their honesty. For when they were asked why they were planning to kill me, ...
§ 5.910 Take these five talents and give them to her. ...
§ 5.920 Needed one, even though they did not say so. ...
§ 5.930 He was a dear friend to Stesichorus ...
§ 5.940 Such were the deeds of Phalaris ...
§ 5.950 So that they do not become whores
And nothing hinders me at all. ...
§ 5.960 If only one of them was to turn around and fight the hawk, ...
§ 5.970 CONCERNING ARCHIMEDES, OF WHOM I’VE WRITTEN IN THE 35TH Story (TE2.32 E6 ...
§ 5.975 (TE2.33) CONCERNING THE SCRIBES OF DARIUS AND XERXES, ...
§ 5.990 Cephalus gave them eight hundred shields
And sponsored their victory over the tyrants. ...
§ 5.1000 (TE2.35) CONCERNING CTESIPHON, ...
§ 6.4 CHILIADES BOOK 6, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS
CONCERNING TIMARCHUS (TE2.36 ...
§ 6.10 Whom lines of men indecorous call immodest and immoral, ...
§ 6.20 Lashing my whip on the face of war and going the way of peace, ...
§ 6.30 But teeming now it is with men and empty fields, ...
§ 6.40 The one Lysias introduced with elegance and eloquence, ...
§ 6.50 -All these had the approval of the city of Athens ...
§ 6.60 Thus did Aeschines ...
§ 6.64 (TE2.37) CONCERNING DEMOSTHENES AND OTHERS
From oblivion have I now recovered the matters concerning Demosthenes ...
§ 6.70 So, listen once more about Demosthenes ...
§ 6.80 Where the enemy hands him gifts, the so called “gardens”
And weds one of the rich Scythian ...
§ 6.90 And then he began advocating and speaking publicly, ...
§ 6.100 But they refused to pay him
And dragged him instead to court. ...
§ 6.110 The rest think of him as filthy and although Lycurgus ...
§ 6.120 Are you willing to stand against Philip ...
§ 6.130 Of his status and roots he boasts
And puckers his eyebrows, ...
§ 6.140 As being clear signs of his hollow nature
And of none of his body parts being unavailable to sale, ...
§ 6.150 And spoke rubbing his head, such was his habit. ...
§ 6.160 “They accused my father of being a foreigner among other things”, ...
§ 6.170 Demosthenes instantly took off for Calauria ...
§ 6.180 Being, thus, put to trial according to the Athenian ...
§ 6.186 (TE2.38) CONCERNING PYTHO OF BYZANTIUM, ...
§ 6.201 (TE2.39) CONCERNING CLUSINUS, ...
§ 6.210 Porsenna seized him and interrogated him:
“Why did you do this, ...
§ 6.220 And when Porsenna ...
§ 6.224 (TE2.40) CONCERNING DIONYSIUS, ...
§ 6.233 This Dionysius, ...
§ 6.240 Where he began teaching in the middle of the street
And spent his time in brothels, ...
§ 6.247 (TE2.41) CONCERNING PERSEUS, ...
§ 6.253 (TE2.42) CONCERNING SOMNA AND ELOACEIM, ...
§ 6.260 On the fourteenth year of Ezekiel ...
§ 6.270 From them murdered the messenger thousands during the night
A hundred and five and eighty more
As this kingly book of mine teaches. ...
§ 6.273 (TE2.43) CONCERNING DIOPHANTES, ...
§ 6.290 These women were responsible for the queen’s hair and nails. ...
§ 6.303 (TE2.45) CONCERNING PHILOSTRATUS THE ORATOR, ...
§ 6.320 When the son said to Cato ...
§ 6.331 (TE2.47) CONCERNING LEMPHO, ...
§ 6.342 (TE2.48) CONCERNING BATTUS, ...
§ 6.360 If it is cultivated, it leaves the country of its origin. ...
§ 6.367 (TE2.49) CONCERNING ANDOCIDES, ...
§ 6.376 (TE2.50) CONCERNING DEMOSTHENES, ...
§ 6.390 “Many squads would lack a wine-pourer”; ...
§ 6.400 If anyone sees the histories here as too brief, ...
§ 6.420 He was given the name Plato ...
§ 6.424 (TE2.52) CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF HEROD, ...
§ 6.430 Alexander was born after Aristobulus ...
§ 6.440 Is this petty man still alive? Does he still see the light of the sun?
O by the king’s reason, ...
§ 6.450 Found then unexpected salvation
And Archelaus ...
§ 6.460 And then Diophantus ...
§ 6.470 (TE2.53) CONCERNING XERMODIGESTUS, ...
§ 6.481 (TE2.54) CONCERNING CANDAULUS’ WIFE, ...
§ 6.485 (TE2.55) CONCERNING LAETUS AND ECLECTUS, ...
§ 6.490 But one that started in front of the arena and not the palace. ...
§ 6.500 She makes a poison by herself and handles it to him to drink
And while Commodus ...
§ 6.504 (TE2.56) CONCERNING PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS, ...
§ 6.508 (TE2.57) CONCERNING HELENUS, ...
§ 6.518 (T59) CONCERNING WHAT THE AUTHOR FROM CHAIRONEIA TELLS ABOUT VINDICIUS
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch ...
§ 6.27 (TE2.60) CONCERNING WHAT COCCEIANUS WRITES ABOUT CORIOLANUS
Cassius Dio ...
§ 6.540 They thought they were under attack and fled to all directions. ...
§ 6.550 They took battle positions against the Romans
And were it not for the fact that, ...
§ 6.561 (TE2.61) CONCERNING WHAT THE AUTHOR FROM ANTIOCH WRITES ABOUT AGAVE, ...
§ 6.592 (TE2.62) “YOU THINK I AM MARGITES?”
In the second list, ...
§ 6.621 (TE2.66) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MAGNESIAN STONE, ...
§ 6.630 She will reach out to your neck and hang her arms around you. ...
§ 6.639 (TE2.67) CONCERNING LIQUID SILVER
Everyone says that mercury loves gold. ...
§ 6.646 (TE2.68) CONCERNING OTHER STONES I WILL NOT SAY MUCH
Some precious stone draws all other stones to it
Even gold or some stone from the deeps, ...
§ 6.655 (TE2.69) CONCERNING THE RIGIDITY OF SOPHOCLES, ...
§ 6.660 (TE2.70) PROVERB “YOU WOUNDED ME, ...
§ 6.667 (TE2.71 E6) CONCERNING THE VOICE THAT MARCUS CEDICIUS HEARD FROM THE SKIES
Somewhere in the Parallel Lives, ...
§ 6.700 (TE2.73) CONCERNING THE TERMS DIAULUS, ...
§ 6.708 (TE2.74) CONCERNING THE LOTUS
There is the wild herb they call lotus, ...
§ 6.730 Of his father or brother or even his dear son. ...
§ 6.739 (TE2.77) CONCERNING ODYSSEUS, ...
§ 6.744 (TE2.78) CONCERNING HOW TIMIDITY LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS, ...
§ 6.748 (TE2.79) CONCERNING HOW TO TRAIN YOURSELF THROUGH PREPARATION
Know that the lawyer’s art is called rhetoric, ...
§ 6.760 How to counter the opponent’s arguments and how to present one’s own
As well as in how many and which ways this should be done. ...
§ 6.770 The rest are called specific.
But the wise Hermogenes ...
§ 6.780 And there are also other types, most similar to legal speeches, ...
§ 6.790 Wishing to teach those things to the rest of the orators
And stealing everyone from which he had once benefited; ...
§ 6.800 So he came upon such things by scheming and plotting
And it was by help of others as well not different from him. ...
§ 6.810 Where should he put forth his arguments and where not
And where should one place his conclusion and where not
So should he approach every part in matters of composition and length
What matters should he put forward in each and every one of them
And all else comprises the eight parts, ...
§ 6.825 (TE2.81) CONCERNING THE FLIGHT OF THE CROW AND THE DOVE FROM THE ARK
When the levels of that cataclysmic water came down
He first let a crow ...
§ 6.843 [TE2.83]) ... Eden means “comfortable”, ...
§ 6.843 (TE2.84 E11) CONCERNING PHILOPOEMEN, ...
§ 6.858 (TE2.85) CONCERNING THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PAROINIA
Learn what a jeering is and what is paroinia
And the games of latage and cottabus and eōlocrasia. ...
§ 6.870 So jeering is the sheer act of hybris and comedy
While paroinia is hybris and chattering. ...
§ 6.880 And, in demonstration of manly courage, ...
§ 6.890 Which means that they spew it out and emptied their mouths. ...
§ 6.900 (TE2.86 E12) CONCERNING A VERSE FROM PINDAR
Pindar ...
§ 6.910 (TE2.87 E12) CONCERNING METAMELEIA, ...
§ 6.917 (TE2.88 E13) CONCERNING HELICON
Helicon ...
§ 6.940 And praise their father with dances on the mountain of Helicon ...
§ 6.945 (TE2.91) CONCERNING LEIBETHRION
Leibethrion ...
§ 6.949 (TE2.92) CONCERNING YOUR HAVING BECOME LIKE THE BARBARIANS AFTER SPENDING MANY YEARS LIVING AMONG THEM
Euripides ...
§ 6.959 (TE2.94) CONCERNING THE THESSALIAN CHEIRON, ...
§ 6.970 And, being one of the first to teach the art of horsemanship, ...
§ 6.973 (TE2.95) CONCERNING MT. ...
§ 6.1000 [7.1] BOOK 7, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI
(TE2.99 ...
§ 7.10 Now who the Centaurs ...
§ 7.20 Suggests that the Centaurs ...
§ 7.30 But it did not happen like that, Pindar ...
§ 7.40 Begot a son, Imbrus, whom people were calling “Centaur ...
§ 7.49 (TE2.100) CONCERNING CLEITARCHUS’ WRITING ON THE TENTHREDO
This Cleitarchus ...
§ 7.71 Of the many huntsmen who gathered there, ...
§ 7.75 (TE2.103) CONCERNING THE PROVERB “HE WHO LOVES IS BLINDED BY THE BELOVED”
All the beloved ones seem to be pleasant to those who love them; ...
§ 7.78 (TE2.104 E13) CONCERNING THE PINDARIC MAXIM “NOR DOES HOT WATER SO RELAX THE LIMBS AS PRAISE”
In the baths, ...
§ 7.87 (TE2.107) CONCERNING SALMONEUS, ...
§ 7.92 (TE2.108) CONCERNING THAMYRIS, ...
§ 7.100 “They in their wrath maimed him; they
Took from him his wondrous singing and made him forget his lyre playing”. ...
§ 7.102 (TE2.109) CONCERNING THE HOMERIC PROVERB “OTHERS CARE FOR THINGS LIKE THESE, ...
§ 7.108 (TE2.110) CONCERNING THE LIVING ONE, ...
§ 7.114 (TE2.111) CONCERNING HERACLES, ...
§ 7.118 (TE2.112) CONCERNING THE DRINKING GAME COTTABOS
We have recently explained exactly and thoroughly, ...
§ 7.130 They have been named Alastores, a most suitable name. ...
§ 7.133 (TE2.114) CONCERNING THE INQUIRERS (PEUTHENES), ...
§ 7.140 As for them, whom they send for matters of treaties, ...
§ 7.142 (TE2.115) WHAT IS A PROBOLOS
Problis, ...
§ 7.150 A protrusion (probolos) is a rock jutting into the sea, ...
§ 7.154 (TE2.116 E15) CONCERNING THE PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE
Pythagoras ...
§ 7.190 As it happens with the caper, according to some of the experts. ...
§ 7.203 (TE2.121) CONCERNING THE RING OF POLYCRATES
Polycrates ...
§ 7.210 So then Polycrates ...
§ 7.239 (TE2.125) CONCERNING “YOU THE BEST OF PROPHETS, ...
§ 7.249 (TE2.126) CONCERNING CHARITONYMUS OR IOANNES
In the Hebrew language the iao stands for the unseen, ...
§ 7.251 (TE2.127) CONCERNING THE LYDIAN STONE, ...
§ 7.260 And after them, they have named basanos the punishments, ...
§ 7.262 (TE2.128) CONCERNING WHEREFORE PROPETES IS CALLED
Some of the naturally more developed nestling birds, ...
§ 7.270 The one who speaks anything but the right words, ...
§ 7.280 And since the rumours of this case were quickly spread, ...
§ 7.290 (TE2.131) CONCERNING THE CYCLOPES WHO HAD A MUTUAL HATRED AND WERE INCOMPATIBLE
The Cyclopes ...
§ 7.307 (TE2.133) CONCERNING AEACUS, ...
§ 7.322 (TE2.134) CONCERNING THE FLOOD OF DEUCALION, ...
§ 7.330 After their coming out of the ark, both men and women
And each one of them, ...
§ 7.340 Whereas, they ought to have said it in this way: there were as many stones
As the number of the women along with Pyrrha ...
§ 7.343 (TE2.135) CONCERNING PRIAM, ...
§ 7.360 And mother of another king, equally, ...
§ 7.370 As well as Danaus ...
§ 7.387 (TE2.138) CONCERNING “HOW THE HORSES OF XERXES’ ARMY DRIED UP THE RIVERS BY LEANING OVER TO DRINK WATER”
Xerxes ...
§ 7.400 (TE2.139) CONCERNING THEBES BEING DESTROYED BY ALEXANDER AND THEIR RECONSTRUCTION BY ALEXANDER HIMSELF FOR THE SAKE OF AN ATHLETE
It is not reported by many, ...
§ 7.410 In such a piteous way Alexander ...
§ 7.420 Concerning the reconstruction of the city in this way saying in verse:
“Hermes ...
§ 7.430 After even being victorious in the pancratium, ...
§ 7.441 (TE2.140) CONCERNING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF STAGIRA, ...
§ 7.446 (TE2.141) CONCERNING PTOLEMY, ...
§ 7.480 (TE2.143) CONCERNING CONCEPT AND MERE CONCEPT AND ANTIPODES AND PLATO'S IDEAS
The terms Mind (nous), ...
§ 7.490 Thought (dianoia) is the touchstone of inward thought (logos endiathetos), ...
§ 7.500 And needing judgement of calculation (logismos) to come to know, ...
§ 7.504 Know well, then, these things according to Tzetzes ...
§ 7.518 But you wise scumbags, listen to me again. ...
§ 7.528 So we speak properly of Mind (nous) pertaining to divine beings; ...
§ 7.536 Now from this, my all-wise vilifiers, ...
§ 7.550 Phaenno many years ago foretold some things, ...
§ 7.560 Who shall plunder the treasures of your country, ...
§ 7.570 Wretched Antioch ...
§ 7.580 Because of them, they said that a few men partake of Mind (nous). ...
§ 7.590 We must speak of the antipodes and of the ideas. ...
§ 7.600 Grabbed him by the hand and led him to a lake and after showing him the shadows, ...
§ 7.610 For they are more indiscernible than the indiscernible quicksilver. ...
§ 7.620 First, he comprehends via reasoning and he perceives beforehand, ...
§ 7.629 (TE2.144) CONCERNING WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING MORE MISAPPREHENDED THAN THESE
There is a book by Scylax ...
§ 7.640 He tells of these things as if they were true and not fabricated. ...
§ 7.650 Among those men, whose writings in complex metres I am personally familiar with, ...
§ 7.660 Now hear the verses of Posidippus ...
§ 7.670 And Philostephanus ...
§ 7.680 And even Herodotus ...
§ 7.690 Rich in horses, ...
§ 7.700 Campasus, which pours its water into the divine, ...
§ 7.710 Persistently insists that such things do not exist. ...
§ 7.720 Of whom some shaded their faces with their ears, ...
§ 7.730 Uranius somewhere in the third book of his Arabica says, ...
§ 7.740 Two fathoms wide, who would believe him?
Whose one single joint makes two merchant vessels?
Those who say about the more unusual fennels, ...
§ 7.750 And for the histories he would need more books, ...
§ 7.759 Everyone writes about the things we mentioned above as if they were genuine. ...
§ 7.769 (TE2.145) CONCERNING THE BREAD OBELIAS
I called obelias a bread here
Dirty, ...
§ 7.778 (TE2.146) CONCERNING THE EFFEMINATE SARDANAPALUS
Sardanapalus ...
§ 7.790 The voluptuousness of the man is clearly demonstrated to you
By an epigram, ...
§ 7.795 (TE2.147) CONCERNING THE DICTUM OF SOLOMON, ...
§ 7.807 (TE2.148) CONCERNING “JUST AS GALEN TEACHES ABOUT THE ANGRY AND RAVING MEN”
The raving, ...
§ 7.810 (TE2.149) CONCERNING “DEVOURING HIS OWN SOUL AND SHUNNING THE PATHS OF MEN”
Hipponus the Corinthian ...
§ 7.820 He avoided murdering him with his own hands; ...
§ 7.830 So that the youth would be killed in combat with it. ...
§ 7.860 And his other victories, as it happens to many people. ...
§ 7.870 So having been in this way deprived of his eyes, ...
§ 7.882 (TE2.150) CONCERNING “THE MISANTHROPIC ACCORDING TO HIPPOCRATES”
I wrote this, ...
§ 7.887 (TE2.151) THAT THERSITES’ NAME WAS RECORDED IN EPIC POETRY FOR INSULTING THE HEROES
Thersites ...
§ 7.898 (TE2.152) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONSTROSITY (TERAS), ...
§ 7.910 The one which was done after careful consideration, ...
§ 7.920 For example, just like the heavy rain waters the dry ground, ...
§ 7.929 (TE2.154) CONCERNING HOW PHEIDIAS, ...
§ 7.944 (TE2.155) CONCERNING “PROFITING FROM PERSONAL GRIEF, ...
§ 7.960 And by Herodicus ...
§ 7.970 The medical art. He wrote
Fifty three books. ...
§ 7.980 They say there are four reasons for this:
Either because he had a pain in the head, ...
§ 7.990 (TE2.156) CONCERNING THE SACK OF MILETUS IN THE PLAY OF PHRYNICHUS
In the time of Darius ...
§ 7.1000 He was fined a thousand drachmas by the Athenians ...
§ 7.1000 8.7 BOOK 8, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI
(TE2.157 ...
§ 8.18 (TE2.159) CONCERNING THE PROVERB “WHEN SOMEONE ASKS FOR BUCKETS, ...
§ 8.30 (TE2.161) CONCERNING THE SAYING “MANY PEOPLE COMMIT WRONG, ...
§ 8.45 (TE2.162) CONCERNING THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE BY THE SAVIOUR WITH FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD
From the Gospel, ...
§ 8.49 (TE2.163) CONCERNING “WHEN A CUCKOO CRIES”
The cuckoo is a bird similar to a falcon; ...
§ 8.60 (TE2.165) CONCERNING “SPEAKING MANY FALSE THINGS AS THOUGH THEY WERE TRUE”
In the Odyssey ...
§ 8.65 (TE2.166) CONCERNING THE ONE MORE TALKATIVE THAN THE CICADAS, ...
§ 8.70 But if cold weather arrives, it remains silent and ceases its chirping songs. ...
§ 8.80 This happen to be a foolish myth that needs to be interpreted allegorically. ...
§ 8.92 (TE2.167) CONCERNING THE SPEECHLESSNESS OF THE SERIPHIAN FROGS
While every terrestrial frog ...
§ 8.95 (TE2.168) CONCERNING “FOR HARMONIDES BY FAR MORE YOU, ...
§ 8.100 (TE2.169) CONCERNING PARODY AND PASTING
In his book On Method of Forceful Style
Hermogenes ...
§ 8.110 “He ravished a maiden and tamed her against her will.” [Oppian, ...
§ 8.121 Paragrammatism is very close to parody, ...
§ 8.130 Now that you have learned what is pasting and what is parody, ...
§ 8.132 (TE2.170) CONCERNING THE THE HEALING WATER DRUNK BY ANOTHER FOR SNAKEBITE VICTIMS
If someone, ...
§ 8.160 (TE2.174) CONCERNING A HISTORICAL WORD, ...
§ 8.190 Death becomes intelligible to Tzetzes ...
§ 8.192 (TE2.177) CONCERNING THE DEATH, ...
§ 8.198 (TE2.178) CONCERNING THE MUCUS EARWAX
Slime, ...
§ 8.208 (TE2.179) CONCERNING “THOUGH CUTTING OUR HAIR IS A TRIBUTE TO THE SAD DEAD” AND CONCERNING “BUT, ...
§ 8.220 “But, that the spirit of man can be brought back again, ...
§ 8.222 (TE2.180) CONCERNING “BUT WHEN THE DUST HAS DRAWN UP THE BLOOD OF A MAN, ...
§ 8.230 Writing in iambic verses Aeschylus ...
§ 8.233 (TE2.181) CONCERNING SOCRATES WHO SAYS: “I WILL FIND A PLACE MUCH BETTER THAN THIS ONE HERE”
Socrates ...
§ 8.240 That very man was most nobly philosophizing, ...
§ 8.246 (TE2.182) CONCERNING THE WORDS WHICH THE SPECTRE OF PATROCLUS SAYS TO ACHILLES: “NOT WHILE I WAS ALIVE WERE YOU UNMINDFUL OF ME, ...
§ 8.266 (TE2.185) CONCERNING THE ATTIC FOUNTAIN CALLIRHOE
Of the mouth of twelve springs and Callirhoe ...
§ 8.270 (TE2.186) WHAT LARINOS IS
Note that everything big is call larinon; ...
§ 8.279 (TE2.187) CONCERNING “AS PYTHAGORAS PROVED ME SILENT”
Pythagoras ...
§ 8.286 (TE2.188) CONCERNING THE MIGRATION OF THE SUN TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
They say there are five poles of the celestial sphere, ...
§ 8.300 When it moves towards the North Pole and the Tropic of Cancer, ...
§ 8.302 (TE2.189) CONCERNING THE TRIBON, ...
§ 8.310 I even spoke to you of the tiara; Now, ...
§ 8.314 (TE2.190) CONCERNING “TO MOST MORTALS THE HAVEN OF FRIENDSHIP IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED”
Euripides ...
§ 8.319 (TE2.191) CONCERNING POLYKLEITOS
Polykleitos ...
§ 8.330 The ivory Athena ...
§ 8.350 Striving for decorum more than the others, ...
§ 8.360 And considering that the whole shape would seem much smaller in proportion to the height of the appointed place, ...
§ 8.375 (TE2.195) CONCERNING PRAXITELES
Praxiteles ...
§ 8.388 (TE2.198) CONCERNING PARRHASIUS
This Parrhasius ...
§ 8.408 (TE2.199) CONCERNING STASICRATES
Stasicrates was a bronze-worker and a native of Bithynia ...
§ 8.435 (TE2.201) CONCERNING YOUR LITTLE FROGS WITH THE SWOLLEN JAW
Aristophanes ...
§ 8.450 For whenever he stole, he replaced the stolen goods and returned one thing for another. ...
§ 8.461 (TE2.203) ACCORDING TO THE COMIC POET: “BITING MYSELF, ...
§ 8.470 But he even wears his regular most feminine clothing, ...
§ 8.478 (TE2.204) CONCERNING LYCOPHRON OF CHALCIS
There were several men of the name of Lycophron ...
§ 8.490 That the very things which he interprets are the children of his own reasoning, ...
§ 8.500 (TE2.205) CONCERNING THE BIRD OF ATHENA, ...
§ 8.510 The king of all birds in borrowed plumage. ...
§ 8.520 According to which the jackdaw was exceptionally deformed before, ...
§ 8.523 (TE2.206) YOU WHO PUT THE JACKDAW TO THE TEST
Now a reversal of stories has occurred, ...
§ 8.530 The Owl is said to be the bird of Athena ...
§ 8.537 (TE2.207) CONCERNING THE DRONES, ...
§ 8.550 Whoever says something else writing about the drones, ...
§ 8.552 (TE2.208) CONCERNING “AGREE WITH THE LAD PROCLAIMING THAT HONEY IS ACQUIRED BY THE BEE’S LABOUR”
Learn that this happen to be an ironic figure of speech. ...
§ 8.560 The Macedonians ...
§ 8.570 (TE2.209) CONCERNING THE PROVERB SAYING “EVEN THE STONES WILL CRY OUT”
We say this proverb for things that are excessively obvious. ...
§ 8.582 (TE2.211) CONCERNING THE PILLARS OF DIONYSUS
Near the mountain of Hemodon
Some people have set up pillars, ...
§ 8.588 (TE2.212) CONCERNING THE EASTERN OCEAN
The Ocean, ...
§ 8.600 For out of the Zephyrus ...
§ 8.610 And he says that the rivers and the earthquakes, ...
§ 8.620 In turn, two other mouths on the South
Formed a passage to the Persian Gulf ...
§ 8.630 The one towards the South and the southern parts
Both Persian ...
§ 8.640 And eat them easily, after dropping them to the ground. ...
§ 8.653 (TE2.215) CONCERNING THE SIDE OF ZEPHYRUS
There are twelve winds, ...
§ 8.660 With everything behind you being towards the west, ...
§ 8.670 You are fully informed about the places on the right side of the earth towards Lips ...
§ 8.680 Both of them bind close together the Latins ...
§ 8.690 The Phoenician ...
§ 8.700 But it just happens to start with the syllable ga. ...
§ 8.717 (TE2.218) CONCERNING THE ISLES OF THE HESPERIDES AND THE BRITISH ISLES
The Brettanic isles ...
§ 8.726 (TE2.219) TOWARDS THE BLASTS OF NOTOS AND TURNING TO GO SOUTHWARD
The position of the inhabited world looks like an omicron. ...
§ 8.733 (TE2.220) CONCERNING THE INHABITABLE AND UNINHABITABLE PARTS OF ETHIOPIA
Towards the southern part, ...
§ 8.740 Both Ethiopia ...
§ 8.751 (TE2.221) CONCERNING THE ARCTIC AND NORTHERN REGION
The place which lies towards the north part of the inhabited world
Arctic is called, ...
§ 8.767 (TE2.224) CONCERNING THE MAEOTIAN SCYTHIANS AND THE CAUCASIAN SCYTHIANS
There are three tribes of the Scythians ...
§ 8.770 Maeotis itself among the Greeks is rich according to its name, ...
§ 8.780 The one closest to Hyrcania ...
§ 8.790 (TE2.225) CONCERNING THE EARTH AND THE SEA, ...
§ 8.793 (TE2.226) CONCERNING THE THESSALIAN SOLDIER WHO CONCEALED HIMSELF AT THE COURT OF LYCOMEDES
As Achilles ...
§ 8.801 (TE2.227) CONCERNING “COMPARED WITH THE BEE DO NOT BECOME MORE UNGRATEFUL THAN THE DRONES”
Drones are animals bred up together with the bees ...
§ 8.810 Since they offer the service of carrying them water in return. ...
§ 8.814 (TE2.228) CONCERNING, ...
§ 8.820 Whereas the chest of favours was empty. ...
§ 8.830 And countless other notable men.
This Simonides ...
§ 8.837 (TE2.229) CONCERNING “NOT EVEN THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE EVENING, ...
§ 8.842 (TE2.230) CONCERNING THE AESOPIAN HOUND BITING THE HARE, ...
§ 8.848 (TE2.231) CONCERNING THE HISTORICAL WORDS BOULUTOS AND GRAMMATEION AND GRAMMATION
Boulutos is the time when the land workers
Release the oxen ...
§ 8.854 (TE2.232) CONCERNING VOTING BY SHOW OF HANDS AND WHAT THE METHOD OF FORMER VOTING WAS
In former times, ...
§ 8.860 But if the one occupying the magistracy was not acceptable, ...
§ 8.866 (TE2.233) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SYNODOS AND A SYLLOGOS
Learn the difference between a synodos and a syllogos. ...
§ 8.869 (TE2.234) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PARAPLEX, ...
§ 8.880 So they draw stones and swords and they strike any chance person. ...
§ 8.889 (TE2.235) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD TYREUONTES
The act of contriving by trickery and intrigue was named tyreuein after the Tyrrheni ...
§ 8.896 (TE2.236) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORD ATOPON
Atopon (strange), ...
§ 8.901 (TE2.237) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD SCAIOROUSIN (TO DEVISE MISCHIEVOUSLY)
Scaion (ill-omened) means anything left-sided and useless, ...
§ 8.909 (TE2.239) WHAT CATHARMATA AND PHARMACOI MEAN, ...
§ 8.920 (TE2.240) CONCERNING THE DRUGS AGAINST VENOMOUS BEASTS AND COMMON ANTIPATHY
The makers of antidotes against the venomous bites of beasts
The snakes ...
§ 8.927 (TE2.241) CONCERNING THE INFATUATED AND MELANCHOLY MAD ONES
Being both infatuated and deranged
Is some kind of mild wandering of the mind, ...
§ 8.930 (TE2.242) CONCERNING HOW MUCH CARE THE JACKDAWS BESTOWED ON THE REALM
[930] When some people are utterly and by all means free from care, ...
§ 8.933 (TE2.243) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “OR HOW DO THE EAGLES CARE FOR THE LAWS OF PLATO?”
Note that this is also a similar proverb, ...
§ 8.938 (TE2.244) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “AND THE NIGHTINGALES FOR THE RATIONAL CALCULATION OF ARISTOTLE”
Note also this proverb equal to the other:
“For how do the nightingales care for rational calculation?
Or for such sort of Aristotelian books?”
§ 8.941 (TE2.245) IF YOU WISH, ...
§ 8.947 (TE2.246) CONCERNING ARTAXERXES MACROCHEIR, ...
§ 8.961 (TE2.248) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “ABOVE GOLD AND TOPAZ”
In case of big gifts we say this proverb, ...
§ 8.972 (TE2.249) CONCERNING THE INSCRIPTION AT THE FRONT DOOR OF PLATO’S HOUSE “LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER”
Plato ...
§ 8.976 (TE2.250) CONCERNING A SICK MAN, ...
§ 8.981 (TE2.251) CONCERNING THE EPICUREANS SAYING THAT THE HONEY IS THE TENTH PART OF AMBROSIA
There was a sect of Epicurean ...
§ 8.993 (TE2.253) CONCERNING THE GIFTS THAT ANTHONY GAVE CLEOPATRA
The daughter of Ptolemy Dionysius ...
§ 9.001 BOOK 9, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER
Himself was at that time the judge of their cause. ...
§ 9.10 Having accepted that most readily Caesar
Approved it and after a splendid judgement seat was acquired, ...
§ 9.20 Everyone was astonished and listened with uttermost silence. ...
§ 9.30 Being the nephew of Caesar Gaius Julius ...
§ 9.40 Of her picture left his wife
And he becomes Cleopatra ...
§ 9.50 And the son of Tigranes ...
§ 9.60 With neither the shipowners nor the oarsmen, ...
§ 9.70 With Roman military stratagems.
For he covered the hills with skins recently stripped from oxen ...
§ 9.80 And Cleopatra committed suicide by the bites of the asps, ...
§ 9.88 (TE2.254) CONCERNING MANOAH’S VISION OF GOD AND WHAT HE SAID
Manoah lived with a barren wife
Their childlessness pained them greatly. ...
§ 9.100 Thus spoke Manoah at the time of the appearance
But later the woman, ...
§ 9.103 (TE2.255) CONCERNING HOW MOSES WAS BRIGHTENED BY HIS VISION OF GOD
After God conversed with Moses ...
§ 9.111 (TE2.256) CONCERNING THE WISDOM OF THE PORPHYRY BIRD
The porphyry bird was exceedingly wise. ...
§ 9.115 (TE2.257) CONCERNING WHAT THE WORD AGEROCHOS MEANS
The word agerochos has three meanings:
Glorious, ...
§ 9.122 (TE2.258) CONCERNING WHAT THE WORD SKYTALE MEANS, ...
§ 9.130 The fifth meaning is any kind of rod, ...
§ 9.140 And, stretching it across the whole surface of the rod, ...
§ 9.150 Then, the recipient, having received the rod and the skin, ...
§ 9.156 (TE2.259) CONCERNING THE MOSELE MONASTERY
What is now the Monastery of Mosele used to be Mosele’s house, ...
§ 9.160 I only wonder how it could be that such a man, ...
§ 9.169 (TE2.261) CONCERNING ISAAC, ...
§ 9.190 And constrained by sickness, called to Esau ...
§ 9.200 So he brought her the kid ...
§ 9.210 “The voice is Jacob ...
§ 9.220 (Myrkinos is what Hedonon used to be called). ...
§ 9.230 His son-in-law, and also Histiaeus ...
§ 9.240 But Aristagoras wore it.’”
That is: Histiaeus ...
§ 9.249 (TE2.263) CONCERNING “BE LIKE SNAKES”, ...
§ 9.260 “Be as pure as doves for my sake”
And again he clarifies and means the same thing:
For doves are said to be so pure and wise, ...
§ 9.270 And their head, that is to say, our faith. ...
§ 9.290 I took a very large quarto to write in
As many as ten quartos, ...
§ 9.298 (TE2.265) CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ALITERIOS
There once was a great famine in Athens ...
§ 9.304 (TE2.266) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PACHYS AND PACHES
Pachys, ...
§ 9.321 (TE2.267) CONCERNING “HE WHO DOES NOT ENTER THROUGH THE DOOR”, ...
§ 9.330 And also diggers, cloistered ones, one who drags beasts, ...
§ 9.338 (TE2.269) CONCERNING “DON’T RECEIVE IT, ...
§ 9.344 (TE2.270) CONCERNING A QUOTE FROM HESIOD, ...
§ 9.355 (TE2.271) CONCERNING “I AM NOT A SOOTHSAYER OR ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE SIGNS OF BIRDS”
I poured out this quote, ...
§ 9.370 Then the same is said of men who write metaphrases of books, ...
§ 9.380 (TE2.272) CONCERNING “A CLOUD OF FLEAS OVER XERXES’ UNNUMBERED HOST”
This expedition is an army, ...
§ 9.400 Who had sex with the Magnesian ...
§ 9.410 The rest of the story has gone by, Hera ...
§ 9.420 Then some farmers saw them, and were amazed. ...
§ 9.430 And how could horse riders not have been known to the Greeks?
Horse riders and riding-horses ...
§ 9.440 That you were lying to me and speaking inaccurately. ...
§ 9.450 Nor does the planet Zeus ...
§ 9.460 The cleansed man lusted after. But since she was virtuous, ...
§ 9.470 (Let it not slip your mind that aura means a female slave). ...
§ 9.480 He, in turn, stewarded the place, settled down, ...
§ 9.490 Of horses the Thessalians ...
§ 9.520 Simmas took her and turned to go home, ...
§ 9.530 And very inventive, and he had her as his counselor and right hand, ...
§ 9.540 First she contrived a most finely-worked dress. ...
§ 9.550 First convinced her bed-fellow, the horn-bearer Menoinis
To give her to him as a gift. ...
§ 9.560 Then she built fabled Babylon ...
§ 9.570 However, according to Cleitarchus ...
§ 9.580 At least as far as Babylon ...
§ 9.590 If so, then later on, when Cleitarchus ...
§ 9.600 And a river crossing, which caused great wonder. ...
§ 9.615 (TE2.277) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “A COW WILL CRY AND A BULL WILL MOURN”
There is a phrase commonly used by Constantinopolitans, ...
§ 9.630 But next to the bull ...
§ 9.650 Which was bred from the Roman Italian ...
§ 9.656 (TE2.278) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “WOE TO YOU, ...
§ 9.662 For one of the wise might have spoken to us, ...
§ 9.670 'Woe to you, seven hilled one, because you will not last a thousand years'?”
So that no one will bring forth this as a defence, ...
§ 9.680 But there are two parts to the saying, ...
§ 9.686 (TE2.279) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “ALWAYS OF VERY WARLIKE MEN THE WITS ARE WANDERING”
Generally, ...
§ 9.700 And many other cities does Thessaly ...
§ 9.710 For most people have been barbarized by schedourgy [writing schedia], ...
§ 9.715 (TE2.281) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “SOLDIER ON, ...
§ 9.726 (TE2.282) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HE WHO DOES NOT THINK FOR HIMSELF, ...
§ 9.734 (TE2.283) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “GET THEE SWIFTLY AWAY FROM MY ISLAND, ...
§ 9.740 While he was sleeping, before he could go home, ...
§ 9.751 (TE2.284) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HE WHO LEAVES THE PREPARED THINGS TO CHASE THE UNPREPARED IS A FOOL”
Who coined this phrase, ...
§ 9.762 (TE2.285) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “SHEPHERD, ...
§ 9.770 If you wish to learn from the genealogy also, ...
§ 9.792 (TE2.286) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “FOR YOU ARE NEITHER MADE OF WOOD NOR OF STONE”
The simplest ancients conceived that humans
Were made of wood and stone, ...
§ 9.803 (TE2.287) CONCERNING THE SAYING OF THE ORACLE OF BACIS “O IDLE ONES, ...
§ 9.813 (TE2.288) CONCERNING THE SIBYL’S ORACLE “THE MEN WHO SETTLE THE SEAT OF BYZAS”
Some say this was an oracle of Sibyl ...
§ 9.820 This is answer of the Sibyl ...
§ 9.827 (TE2.289) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “A GIFT IN RETURN, ...
§ 9.831 (TE2.290) CONCERNING THE WORDS ECHPEYKES, ...
§ 9.840 “Let him seek an exchpeyke text and prepare it, ...
§ 9.850 Since it kept the board straight,
And the driver from falling off. ...
§ 9.860 The seat is called astrabe and selma and sella, ...
§ 9.864 (TE2.291) CONCERNING THE ORACLE REGARDING “THESSALIAN HORSES”, ...
§ 9.880 Originally, I thought I had no need to include the oracle here, ...
§ 9.890 Nor even twelfth, neither in words nor in numbers.”
What I have just said is exactly what the oracle did, ...
§ 9.900 (TE2.293) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “QUICKER AND FASTER THAN CELER”
The Romans call fast people celeres, ...
§ 9.910 But I, in my elegant and jocular speech, ...
§ 9.934 (TE2.296) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HAS A BETTER MEMORY THAN BOTH ISOCRATES THE ORATOR AND DEMETRIUS OF PHALERUM”
Isocrates ...
§ 9.943 (TE2.297) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “MOMOS SEE ALL BUT HIMSELF”
The storytellers say that the Momos and the Lamia ...
§ 9.953 (TE2.298) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “OUR WHALES”, ...
§ 9.960 In my commentary on Lycophron ...
§ 9.967 (TE2.299) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “YOU THOUGHT YOUR WISE MEN WERE TELEPHUSES”
This buffalo-priest, ...
§ 9.980 Which Aeschylus attacks as rotten. ...
§ 9.997 (TE2.301) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “THE CHATTERING LANGUAGE OF CICADAS AND ATTIC”
Cicadas are chattering creatures, ...
§ 10.6 BOOK 10, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER
(TE2.302 ...
§ 10.13 (TE2.303) PROVERB SAYING THE UNMENTIONABLE, ...
§ 10.20 And no longer counted that day with the other days. ...
§ 10.30 The word ekphylon or ekphyllon can be defined as:
Of another nation, ...
§ 10.44 (TE2.305) CONCERNING THE WORDS EPISKYNION AND EMBRONTETOS
The episkynion is the place of the eyebrows, ...
§ 10.60 And some rhetoric and philosophy from others, ...
§ 10.70 Wrote most skilfully, not omitting even punctuation mark. ...
§ 10.80 So large the pig among them, so much the pig-filth, ...
§ 10.90 I have read her two little books in verse, ...
§ 10.102 (TE2.307) CONCERNING: “HOWLING LIONS, ...
§ 10.111 (TE2.308) CONCERNING: “ON WHICH MAY NO DEW FALL, ...
§ 10.117 (TE2.309) CONCERNING DATHAN AND ABIRAM
Dathan, ...
§ 10.126 (TE2.310) CONCERNING: “DON’T SAY: ‘OVERLOOK THIS SIN OF THEIRS’”
The holy words of the Evangelists teach us, ...
§ 10.131 (TE2.311) CONCERNING: “BUT I PRAY TO THE AVENGING SPIRITS”
I pray those prayers against whom I have cursed, ...
§ 10.143 (TE2.313) CONCERNING: “BETTER DAYS, ...
§ 10.150 (TE2.314) CONCERNING: “LEAVING THE UNDERWORLD OF THE DEAD AND THE GATES OF DARKNESS”
Polydorus ...
§ 10.160 This story has been told in Euripides ...
§ 10.165 (TE2.315) CONCERNING: “ARE THERE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT?”
When much of the Hebrew people died in the desert, ...
§ 10.174 (TE2.316) CONCERNING: “YOU RAN OUT BY THE BORDERS OF THESSALONICA AND THE PAEONIANS”
What is now the glorious city of Thessalonica ...
§ 10.180 Since her name was Thessalonice ...
§ 10.190 “But Pyraichmes led the crook-bowed Paeonians ...
§ 10.210 She returned to her brothers’ tent.
All the Persians ...
§ 10.234 (TE2.319) WHAT ARE, ...
§ 10.240 And says that they used their feet to win the prizes. ...
§ 10.250 (TE2.320) CONCERNING THE BONES WHICH EZEKIEL SAW
Long ago, ...
§ 10.264 (TE2.322) CONCERNING THE JOURNEYS OF ALEXANDER AND LYSIPPOS’ STATUE
The story lies in a letter, ...
§ 10.275 (TE2.323) CONCERNING THE NONSENSE THAT THE STATUE OF TIME IS A STATUE OF LIFE AND NOT OF TIME
Very learned men, ...
§ 10.289 And Demosthenes calls him somewhere deaf and bald
As indeed Lysippos ...
§ 10.295 (TE2.324) CONCERNING: “BUT EVEN GOD CANNOT CHANGE THINGS GONE BY”
God is all-powerful, ...
§ 10.300 (TE2.325) CONCERNING: “O PORTION OF THE GOLDEN RACE ...
§ 10.309 (TE2.326) THAT: “THE CORCYRAEAN PHAEACIANS WERE REPORTED TO BE THE GREATEST SAILORS OF ALL MEN”
The Corcyraean Phaeacians ...
§ 10.314 (TE2.327) CONCERNING: “OF THE PHAEACIAN WOMEN, ...
§ 10.320 So the Phaeacian women were the greatest of all women
In the skill of weaving in the places of weaving. ...
§ 10.340 “So were your blood stained strings, ...
§ 10.347 (TE2.329) “THEY DECORATE ME WITH MILESIAN FLEECES, ...
§ 10.350 So when Themistocles ...
§ 10.360 Yet others say there were seven cities given to him, ...
§ 10.370 Many others mention, as does Aristophanes ...
§ 10.382 (TE2.330) CONCERNING: “AND I BLAME THE ORACLE, ...
§ 10.394 (TE2.332) CONCERNING: “WHAT KIND OF THING AGAIN IS IT, ...
§ 10.400 Cadmus was to slaughter it and sacrifice it on that very ground, ...
§ 10.410 Later on, by famous Zethus ...
§ 10.420 And began fighting and warring amongst themselves. ...
§ 10.430 His murdering chompers, which inflamed the people, ...
§ 10.440 So I have told you the story and given you its allegorical interpretation. ...
§ 10.450 Say: O credulous ones, Tzetzes ...
§ 10.460 Lest he fill up the scrolls with extraneous detail. ...
§ 10.470 And even before Phoenix ...
§ 10.474 (TE2.333) CONCERNING THE FLAME COLOURED CHLANIS GARMENT THAT SYLOSON GAVE DARIUS
When Darius ...
§ 10.491 (TE2.335) CONCERNING THE PROVERB: “I RECEIVED PYRKAIA, ...
§ 10.500 That we call fire pyr, after its discoverer, ...
§ 10.506 (TE2.336) CONCERNING: “WHAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED”
The Greeks say, ...
§ 10.520 “From many parts did Graces ...
§ 10.523 (TE2.338) CONCERNING THE CHALYBIAN IRON
The Chalybians ...
§ 10.527 (TE2.339) CONCERNING: “AND IF IT WAS CREATED, ...
§ 10.543 (TE2.340) CONCERNING THE WORD ANXINOUS. ...
§ 10.550 Instead of saying logismon (capacity of reasoning), ...
§ 10.556 (TE2.341) TZETZES’ POVERTY, ...
§ 10.570 Because in the darkness and smoke of life
There is empty glory in all places and all types of delusions, ...
§ 10.577 (TE2.342) THE PROVERB: “FOR YOU WERE NOT THE FIRST OR ALONE IN SUFFERING THAT WHICH YOU DID”
For those whose lot it is to suffer something first or alone, ...
§ 10.590 Darius found none, ...
§ 10.597 (TE2.343) TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEING
There is a false and verbose philosophy, ...
§ 10.611 (TE2.345) ALTHOUGH HOMER SPEAKS OF “WINGED WORDS”, ...
§ 10.619 (TE2.346) CONCERNING EPAMEINONDAS THE THEBAN GENERAL
Epameinondas ...
§ 10.640 So Cato asked where in the world he was supposed to get a thrush in summer. ...
§ 10.650 So they sent emissaries and boxes of gold to him. ...
§ 10.660 And said: “Cato, ...
§ 10.670 Do you think he needs money and possessions?”
I have quoted Cato ...
§ 10.682 (TE2.348) CONCERNING MEGISTIAS THE ACARNANIAN, ...
§ 10.690 This was Megistias ...
§ 10.700 So Leonidas went with only his three hundred
And killed many barbarians in the battle. ...
§ 10.720 Such as the sons of Tyndareus ...
§ 10.728 (TE2.350) CONCERNING THE SENATE OF THE EYE
The ancients called “eyes” those who were
Kings’ chief men, ...
§ 10.740 So far-seeing men were called ‘eyes’, ...
§ 10.748 (TE2.351) CONCERNING NECTAR
According to mythology ambrosia is a food of the gods, ...
§ 10.756 (TE2.352) CONCERNING THE FOX WHICH CHEATED THE CROW OF A CHEESE
There is a story by Aesop ...
§ 10.766 (TE2.353) WHO ENGLOTOGASTOR, ...
§ 10.780 I count writers with this sort.
We call anyone of this kind a cheirogastor, ...
§ 10.786 (TE2.354) CONCERNING THE SILVER MUSE
All the early poets wrote for free, ...
§ 10.800 So that no one should have to buy Pythagorean ...
§ 10.828 (TE2.358) CONCERNING PHILISTUS THE HISTORIAN AND PHILOXENUS, ...
§ 10.839 Philoxenus then, ...
§ 10.850 Philoxenus wrote back in such a manner, ...
§ 10.862 (TE2.359) HOW PLATO, ...
§ 10.870 And for this reason he was sold as a slave by Polis. ...
§ 10.880 Plato would never have been sold. ...
§ 10.886 (TE2.360) HOW THE AEGINETANS, ...
§ 10.900 Who its inhabitants were and what were their customs. ...
§ 10.910 The Laestrygonians ...
§ 10.920 That is murder and slaying which they practised. ...
§ 10.940 So when the Cyclopes ...
§ 10.950 Whom Pericles had shut out completely, ...
§ 10.960 Pericles had as his lawful wife. ...
§ 10.980 From the west comes the narrow Tyrrhenian ...
§ 10.990 With no rest, it whirls terribly,
Murmuring terribly like a fire-heated cauldron. ...
§ 10.995 (TE2.362) HOW PLATO, ...
§ 11.1 As well as the mime of Sophron ...
§ 11.11 CHILIADES BOOK 11, TRANSLATED BY MUHAMMAD SYARIF FADHLURRAHMAN
THE PROVERB WE MENTIONED BEFORE, ...
§ 11.20 (TE2.364) “WE TAKE NOT GIFTS FROM ANYONE. ...
§ 11.30 For he feared gifts looking like provision of necessities. ...
§ 11.40 For hundreds of mina and many more; like that of Philolaus ...
§ 11.48 (TE2.365) HISTORICAL DICTION, ...
§ 11.60 Smooth are those possessing fleshless rumps. ...
§ 11.65 (TE2.366) CONCERNING THE BURN DOWN IN CROTON, ...
§ 11.70 A contemporary also of King Polycrates ...
§ 11.80 Then, being hated by them, was set ablaze with firewood, ...
§ 11.90 And fleeing to Metapontum ...
§ 11.94 (TE2.367) REGARDING PASICRATES (OR STASICRATES), ...
§ 11.97 (TE2.368) THAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD TWISTED NECK AND EYES OF DIFFERENT COLOURS
The great king Alexander ...
§ 11.109 (TE2.369) HISTORY, ...
§ 11.120 Made the twelve into fourteen,
Refutation on its own, ...
§ 11.130 The book of pre-exercises does list these. ...
§ 11.140 You heard about the fable, how does this need writing?
Although Aphthonius ...
§ 11.150 Clarity, grandeur, beauty and rapidity
And with them also character, ...
§ 11.160 Clear, magnificent, brief and plausible, ...
§ 11.170 And with testimony of the ancients, and brief epilogue. ...
§ 11.180 The unclarity, the impossibility and the forcelessness, ...
§ 11.190 The book of the sophist-rhetors, as we have said,
Is a pentabiblos, ...
§ 11.200 Letter and spirit of the law, and also inference, ...
§ 11.210 From supposition and from superfluity, ...
§ 11.217 Tzetzes the unrhetoricked, ...
§ 11.230 This unrhetoricked Tzetzes ...
§ 11.240 Do not mean, as you say just now, “what has been done before”
But they say summarily what is about to be said, ...
§ 11.253 But the ignorant one already confused you for the Eparch, ...
§ 11.259 Pentabiblos, as we said, the bible of the rhetors, ...
§ 11.270 Not to describe straight after the introduction, ...
§ 11.280 The third section thereof is about inventions. ...
§ 11.290 First, I lay it down for you with these very same four, ...
§ 11.300 It teaches fourteen schemes of the assemblies, ...
§ 11.310 And then bad taste and covert allusion, ...
§ 11.320 That there are the remaining four thereof
The beauty, ...
§ 11.330 Along with them, the fifth is strength, ...
§ 11.340 Word order and cadence, and with them the rhythm too. ...
§ 11.350 In the booklet regarding method of force, ...
§ 11.360 Certainly the whole book has been written by Tzetzes ...
§ 11.375 (TE2.371) CONCERNING THE GIFTS WHICH ANTHONY GAVE TO CLEOPATRA
You have this history most beauteously in its entirety, ...
§ 11.377 (TE2.372) CONCERNING THAT BY SWIFT ARES AND ATHENA, ...
§ 11.390 Now they made camp near the Delphic ...
§ 11.400 The precise number of those wounded, ...
§ 11.410 The one beyond them to the east is called Galatia ...
§ 11.415 (TE2.373) CONCERNING NECTAR AND THAT “I AM NO GOD TO YOU”
Two histories indeed they are, ...
§ 11.430 And then he laid upon Telemachus ...
§ 11.440 By Athena’s plaits, ...
§ 11.451 (TE2.374) CONCERNING THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A TWELVE-SPOUTED MOUTH, ...
§ 11.470 And it produces the biggest and most beautiful pearl. ...
§ 11.480 I myself do not defend the physics explanation of lightning, ...
§ 11.490 Extremely white and shining, and spherical. ...
§ 11.498 (TE2.376) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS, ...
§ 11.510 Since it is impossible to descend there, ...
§ 11.520 (TE2.377) CONCERNING ENCYCLICAL EDUCATION
Encyclical learning, ...
§ 11.530 And traversing heaven of this astronomy. ...
§ 11.536 (TE2.378) PROVERB, ...
§ 11.549 (TE2.379) PROVERB, ...
§ 11.560 Against the same that Androgeus ...
§ 11.570 Going into the Labyrinth ...
§ 11.576 (TE2.380) CONCERNING “WRYNECKS” OF WORDS
Wryneck, ...
§ 11.590 Whence they say all, as Tzetzes ...
§ 11.593 (TE2.381) CONCERNING GEOMETRY AND OPTICS
Geometry is useful for building machines, ...
§ 11.610 And the light mantlets, called tortoises, ...
§ 11.620 And how the caissons and what their positioning
Necessary for the construction of harbours, ...
§ 11.630 Both the shapes of paintings and of statues alike. ...
§ 11.640 For the height is wont to capture the perception. ...
§ 11.648 (TE2.382) STORY THAT SAYS, ...
§ 11.660 And indeed he wrote panegyric words and still others, ...
§ 11.670 The rhetor Alcidamas ...
§ 11.680 And Lysias with many rhetors of old
After a long time, ...
§ 11.696 (TE2.384) CONCERNING THAT, ...
§ 11.710 Surely leads to anywhere created remembrance of his words, ...
§ 11.719 (TE2.385) PRAISE FOR A FLY OR FLEA
Michael Psellos, ...
§ 11.730 Most say that Plato created this, ...
§ 11.744 Many have written such encomia and reproaches. ...
§ 11.750 And others wrote encomia and reproaches of various things. ...
§ 11.760 He called it the Odyssey ...
§ 11.770 While the true and strong needs no ornamentation. ...
§ 11.780 “This Ajax is enormous, ...
§ 11.790 Fell thick like hail.
“Sharp and bright, ...
§ 11.805 To praise such things - fleas, baldness, ...
§ 11.810 If Homer were to compare these skilfully, ...
§ 11.820 And rhetors of eulogies on forms of problems
They say that there are four all together
The doubtful, ...
§ 11.832 (TE2.386) CONCERNING CLEITARCHUS’ WRITING REGARDING THE TENTHREDO
The tenthredo is a small animal resembling a bee ...
§ 11.846 (TE2.389) THE PROVERB SAYING, ...
§ 11.849 (TE2.390 E78) CONCERNING THE STAGIRIAN WISE MAN OR THE CHILD OF ARISTON
Aristotle ...
§ 11.860 (TE2.391 E79) PROVERB, ...
§ 11.873 (TE2.392 E79) CONCERNING THAT “INDEED EARTH IS FULL OF WISE MEN, ...
§ 11.879 (TE2.393 E80) CONCERNING THE TAURO-CARVED OR IF YOU LIKE, ...
§ 11.884 (TE2.394 E80) CONCERNING THE HANDIWORKS OF DAEDALUS
Daedalus ...
§ 11.889 (TE2.395 E80) CONCERNING TANTALUS STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE POOL, ...
§ 11.891 (TE2.396, E80) CONCERNING, ...
§ 11.897 [in iambic hexameter] Now, learn the boundaries of Upper Moesia ...
§ 11.910 And the Dardanians ...
§ 11.920 While I have translated them, to say later. ...
§ 11.930 Again and once more, the eastern side of Moesia ...
§ 11.940 Indeed I said in my paraphrasis of Thracia. ...
§ 11.950 And I said it in the definition of the land of the Macedonians ...
§ 11.960 Of Parahellespontine ...
§ 11.970 Allyda and Prepenesus, and Pergamos ...
§ 11.980 And thus he says, and such things he writes here. ...
§ 11.997 From my iambic verses you had heard, ...
§ 11.1000 Leave aside the young Geographer [Dionysius the Periegete, ...
§ 12.5 BOOK 12, (TE2.397) ON THE FACT THAT GALEN LIVED NOT AT THE TIME OF THE SAVIOUR'S INCARNATION BUT MUCH LATER, ...
§ 12.10 Please let none of the blemish-spotters indict me. ...
§ 12.20 From Andromachus ...
§ 12.30 Hear, Nero, they call it cheerful Galene [tranquility].”
You recognize that Andromachus ...
§ 12.36 (TE2.398) THAT PALAMEDES INVENTED THE ALPHABET. ...
§ 12.50 Simonides, they say, ...
§ 12.60 Conjoined together in one body first appeared -
I find first recognized by the Samians ...
§ 12.70 I made these errors myself, persuaded by what was said, ...
§ 12.80 “He shrank from killing him, for his soul had scruples; ...
§ 12.110 In any case let the oracle show how much the lie. ...
§ 12.120 All those talking about the originators of the letters
Palamedes ...
§ 12.125 (TE2.399) CONCERNING THE YEARS OF METON THE ASTRONOMER, ...
§ 12.140 Who was among the Greeks, the Libyan ...
§ 12.150 Commands you to sing appropriately of the moon's naming
I tell you lightly, ...
§ 12.160 “Therein he wrought the earth, therein the heavens therein the sea ... ...
§ 12.170 And the charming Phaeo ...
§ 12.180 A hundred years earlier than the Trojan War ...
§ 12.190 That he lived a bit earlier than the war of Troy ...
§ 12.200 Thus much was he posterior to Homer ...
§ 12.210 By that much then is Hesiod ...
§ 12.216 He was the best of the astrologers
Making precise horoscopes, ...
§ 12.226 Some wise men made a proverb out of it, ...
§ 12.240 When asked by the children who study with them
What are the years of Meton ...
§ 12.252 But I now have written on Meton ...
§ 12.264 The Greeks, in what I wrote, and the Trojan ...
§ 12.269 I find myself in a tight spot,
In need of Archimedes ...
§ 12.290 Compared to the number of years they speak of. ...
§ 12.297 (TE2.400) CONCERNING HOW HIKETERIA IS DIFFERENT FROM IKESIA, ...
§ 12.306 (TE2.401) CONCERNING THE WRETCHED HAPPY LIFE
There is nothing sad in a happy life
Since if there was anything sad, ...
§ 12.313 (TE2.402) CONCERNING BASANOS AND COLOPHONIAN GOLD
Basanos is a black stone, ...
§ 12.322 (TE2.404) THE STORY ABOUT SILVER FROM ALYBE AND GOLD FROM INDIA, ...
§ 12.330 The Indian ...
§ 12.341 (TE2.405) PROVERB, ...
§ 12.349 (TE2.406) CONCERNING “ON THE GOLDEN KYRBEIS OF THE SOUL”
Axons are square, ...
§ 12.359 (TE2.407) HOW THE HELLANODICAE BROKE THE OLYMPIC LAW ONLY FOR ARISTOPATIRA. ...
§ 12.370 There were Aetolians ...
§ 12.375 (TE2.408) HOW THE LACEDAEMONIANS BROKE THE RULE ABOUT “DROPPING ONE'S SHIELD” SOLELY FOR BRASIDAS SAKE
To execute those who throw away their shield or leave the ranks
Was the law among Lacedaemonians ...
§ 12.385 About Amphipolis ...
§ 12.395 (TE2.409) CONCERNING THE WINGED MYTHICAL MEN, ...
§ 12.400 And fell into the sea and died
Which is still hence called the Icarian ...
§ 12.410 They said that Daedalus ...
§ 12.420 With which he laboriously earned his trophies. ...
§ 12.430 And he fell down under due to cruel mishaps. ...
§ 12.440 Finally the sons of Boreas ...
§ 12.444 (TE2.410) CONCERNING LOOKING DOWN ON THE SUN'S SPHERE, ...
§ 12.460 But he shows this to be empty chatter. ...
§ 12.464 (TE2.412) ON THE PROVERB, ...
§ 12.471 (TE2.413) STORY ABOUT WHERE THE “STONE IN THE THROAT” COMES FROM. ...
§ 12.480 Pausanias, risking death by famine, ...
§ 12.490 (TE2.414) “BUT IF YOU ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THE MORTAL BREEDS, ...
§ 12.496 (TE2.415) HOW XERXES WAS PLEASED WITH HIS UNCOUNTABLE ARMY AND HIS EYES FILLED WITH TEARS
This story you have in full length
In my first book passage thirty two ...
§ 12.498 (TE2.416) ON THERAMENES' NATURE
Theramenes ...
§ 12.508 (TE2.417) CONCERNING WHY HE WHO IS BORN OF THE FOURTH MONTH SUFFERS OTHER PEOPLE'S TROUBLES
They say Heracles ...
§ 12.513 (TE2.418) CONCERNING WHY OLD MEN SAY HE WHO HAS NO DEMON BUYS A LITTLE PIG
To the muse of the crossroads, ...
§ 12.515 (TE2.419) CONCERNING THE LACONIANS BREVITY OF SPEECH AND HOW DID THEY COPY AIKA
About the Laconian ...
§ 12.517 (TE2.420) CONCERNING EUROTAS THE RIVER, ...
§ 12.528 (TE2.421) ON SPEAKING CLEARLY, ...
§ 12.545 (TE2.423) ON DASHING OUT THE LAST DROPS OF WINE
What is propelakismos, ...
§ 12.553 (TE2.425) WHAT IS CRESPHYGETON
A crooked place of refugee, ...
§ 12.555 (TE2.426) CONCERNING THE CANON OF POLYCLEITOS
The canon of Polycleitos ...
§ 12.557 (TE2.427) CONCERNING THE STATUES OF PHIDIAS AND THE HORSE THAT MICON DREW
Right after the story of Polycleitos ...
§ 12.566 (TE2.428) ON THE GLORIOUS, ...
§ 12.570 Philostratus ...
§ 12.580 With an overly obscure and perishable prologue. ...
§ 12.597 (TE2.430) PROVERB “THE AMORGINE STATUE”
Amorge is, ...
§ 12.614 (TE2.432) CONCERNING THE FARMER WHO OFFERED WATER TO ARTAXERXES IN HIS CUPPED HANDS
Artaxerxes ...
§ 12.624 (TE2.433) CONCERNING WHERE THE WORD ORRODEIN COMES FROM
The word orrodein means to be frightened
From the tail of the pigeon also called the os sacrum
Which trembles when the pigeon is held by fear
Either because the tail is the part of the body, ...
§ 12.638 (TE2.434) WHO ARE THE ASCLEPIADAE, ...
§ 12.640 (TE2.435) PROVERB JUMPING BEYOND THE SANDBOX, ...
§ 12.646 CONCERNING PERSEUS, THE SONS OF BOREAS AND BELLEROPHON, ...
§ 12.651 Aristophanes who was a comic poet at the time
Was also a skilful orator. ...
§ 12.660 And he wrote on peace and many other things, ...
§ 12.670 Longing to find a way to make peace. ...
§ 12.680 “Watch out, man”, he shouts, “dig, hide them”
And rinse them with perfume, ...
§ 12.690 Supposedly to juxtapose Peace ...
§ 12.720 As soon as their shell cracks
The beast judges the offspring
If immediately the young captures a bug
A mosquito, ...
§ 12.729 (TE2.439) CONCERNING FEMALE VULTURES CONCEIVING WIND-EGGS
Gypai, ...
§ 12.740 You now know of vultures, the female conceiving wind-eggs. ...
§ 12.743 (TE2.440) CONCERNING THEION – WITHOUT FIRE, ...
§ 12.750 As the thunder gives out an intense smell like sulphur's. ...
§ 12.760 And I neither could see anything in my right. ...
§ 12.770 Thus the smell of thunders I bitterly have known. ...
§ 12.781 (TE2.441) STORY SAYING “IF HE WANTS TO CURE ME, ...
§ 12.791 (TE2.443) PROVERB ABOUT THE GARMENTS OF THE SEA
Eima is a military garment of the navy
Which is called kavades from a Persian ...
§ 12.798 (TE2.444) CONCERNING WHAT YPOULON IS, ...
§ 12.809 (TE2.445) CONCERNING KERDALEON AND WHY IT IS CALLED SO
From kerdos, ...
§ 12.814 (TE2.447) CONCERNING VASKANIA, ...
§ 12.841 (TE2.448) ABOUT THE SAYING “I AM KIMMERIAN AND SUNLESS”
The Kimmerians ...
§ 12.850 Homer places the Kimmerians ...
§ 12.859 (TE2.449) PROVERB “BUT, ...
§ 12.870 Daemon for some means the expert
Daêmon is a word for an expert, ...
§ 12.874 (TE2.450) CONCERNING THE AMAZONS, ...
§ 12.880 Also the women of the Sauromatai ...
§ 12.907 (TE2.452) ON SEMIRAMIS BEING CONSIDERED A MONSTER AMONG ASSYRIANS
The whole story of Semiramis ...
§ 12.920 And the land of the Assyrians ...
§ 12.930 They counter-attacked hurling javelins
And wounded Semiramis ...
§ 12.933 (TE2.453) CONCERNING THE STORY OF THE HUNTRESS ATALANTA, ...
§ 12.940 And she, while trying to gather them all, ...
§ 12.949 (TE2.454) THE MARVEL OF THE MYSIANS, ...
§ 12.953 (TE2.455) AND ARTEMISIA OF CARIA, ...
§ 12.968 (TE2.456) CONCERNING GENDER INNOVATION, ...
§ 12.970 (TE2.457) CONCERNING HOW ARCHIMEDES WAS USEFUL WHILE ALIVE, ...
§ 12.980 I suffer, so I will recount what he himelf said. ...
§ 12.997 (TE2.458) CONCERNING CASTOR AND POLYDEUCES LIVING ON ALTERNATE DAYS
The story of Castor ...
§ 12.997 13.1 BOOK 13 [12.1000]
CONCERNING HEROD'S DISEASE (TE2.459 ...
§ 13.10 And used to send to Cleopatra ...
§ 13.20 Then give the victor the letters and all the rest, ...
§ 13.33 (TE2.460) THE STORY ABOUT “RIDING NOBLE STEEDS” IN HOMER, ...
§ 13.41 (TE2.461) CONCERNING THE TRIUMPHANT RUNNING CHARIOT
This short letter contains everything
About the triumphant chariot seat. ...
§ 13.54 (TE2.462) THE PROVERB SAYING “I PROVED NO BETTER THAN PETER, ...
§ 13.62 (TE2.463) CONCERNING “YOU MAN OF LITTLE FAITH, ...
§ 13.79 (TE2.464) THE SAYING ABOUT “NO HUMAN HEAD EMERGES ABOVE THE LIMBS”
Empedocles ...
§ 13.85 (TE2.465) CONCERNING THE ABDERITES' LOVE FOR DEMOCRITUS
Democritus ...
§ 13.90 (TE2.466) CONCERNING THE SALTED FISH OF THE OXIAN RIVER
Oxian fish to me means salted, ...
§ 13.95 (TE2.467) CONCERNING THE WORDS XERXES SAID ABOUT ARTEMISIA, ...
§ 13.110 He consults again the Carian ...
§ 13.125 (TE2.469) CONCERNING “FOR ONE HOUR YOU COULD NOT WATCH OVER WITH ME”
Around the time of the crucifixion and the Saviour ...
§ 13.137 (TE2.471) THE STORY ABOUT WHO DIONYSIUS AND PHALARIS WERE
Two tyrants have ruled Sicily ...
§ 13.151 (TE2.472) CONCERNING THE TRAGIC AND THE MATTER
The paper showed the drama by the means of its words
Describing grievous disasters and sorrows
But it really shows these by its very fate
Because it fell in the waters of the river Thressa and being soaked
The littlest fraction of it could be read. ...
§ 13.156 (TE2.473) THE STORY ABOUT THE FEMALE RIVER THRESSA BEING REALLY BARBARIC
Thressa is a river in the land of Thracians ...
§ 13.168 (TE2.474) SAYING ABOUT EASTERN BIRDS OF PREY. ...
§ 13.180 Thus, if the birds were “right”, coming from the east
And emitting mixed and distinguished voices
They predicted that the outcome would be good. ...
§ 13.190 They gave them barley to eat, and observed
Whether they would eat them with ease, ...
§ 13.200 Then they studied, for instance in case of war
Whether Greeks will prevail or some barbarian breed, ...
§ 13.210 These are omens in the strict sense
Hence all types of divination also, ...
§ 13.220 “O Brother of me that am a dog ...
§ 13.226 (TE2.475) CONCERNING COLLECTORS
Some people are called collectors, ...
§ 13.240 One or the other in the crowd would offer them something, ...
§ 13.250 With songs, refrains and laudatory speeches
And really deceitful but suitable causes
All these may be called literally minagyrtai
You will mostly come across flag-bearers of this type
And on the first of months, ...
§ 13.260 Rigged a statuette of their goddess Rhea ...
§ 13.270 Who will not be the first to bring pulse and grain
To offer to the holy drum of Rhea ...
§ 13.274 (TE2.476) CONCERNING CHORDEVEIN, ...
§ 13.280 Bones and something else, like slaughter-house blood. ...
§ 13.283 (TE2.477) CONCERNING THERAMENES' APTITUDE AND ARCHIMEDES' MACHINES
The story of Theramenes ...
§ 13.287 (TE2.478) SAYING HOW TO MAKE OUR OWN, ...
§ 13.295 (TE2.479) CONCERNING TRISALITROS, ...
§ 13.310 Thus for Dioscorides ...
§ 13.317 (TE2.480) CONCERNING ATTACKING THE HONOURS, ...
§ 13.330 Hence any food loaded with dressings and sauces
Had the fortune of bearing the name of karyke. ...
§ 13.339 (TE2.481) CONCERNING CATHARMA, ...
§ 13.344 (TE2.482) SAYING ABOUT THE CHAIN OF EXCELLENT PETER, ...
§ 13.350 (TE2.483) CONCERNING HOW THEY HAD NOT LIKE SPEECH NOR ONE LANGUAGE BUT THEIR TONGUES WERE MINGLED AND THEY WERE A FOLK SUMMONED FROM MANY THIEVES
These are patches from Homer ...
§ 13.360 But their tongues were mingled and they were a folk summoned from many thieves
The residents of the royal city of Constantine ...
§ 13.370 (TE2.484) PROVERB SAYING “COME INDEED, ...
§ 13.380 He threw it in the fire and told it:
“Twelve Labours you accomplished, ...
§ 13.395 (TE2.486) PROVERB, ...
§ 13.400 But Thessaly ...
§ 13.410 Cut up his meat with his own hand
Just as Homer ...
§ 13.413 (TE2.487) CONCERNING “BE APT WITH A SIEVE AND CLEANSE THE DIRTY GRAIN AT THE CHURCH”. ...
§ 13.420 Ethmos, sakelisterion, trygoipos, ulister
Are common instruments to cleanse the impurity of wines
But also used figuratively, ...
§ 13.430 Sakellisai can be safely used to mean both
Purifying yourself and cleansing the wine
And is also used for emphasis and as a rhetoric figure, ...
§ 13.436 (TE2.488) PROVERB, ...
§ 13.441 (TE2.489) CONCERNING OSTRACISM AND FAMOSA
Now learn from me how ostracism took its name
And with it, ...
§ 13.460 Some illiterate brute, to whom he had done no harm, ...
§ 13.470 A bystanders nodded and signalled him
That Aristides ...
§ 13.480 And did everything else just as I said about ostraka
But they did not cast them in Kynosarges ...
§ 13.487 Famousa, I think, means for the law-writers
The leaflets denouncing prominent people, ...
§ 13.492 (TE2.490) PROVERB ABOUT NOT BEING STARTLED BY A MOUSE AND DIVERTING THE ONSLAUGHT
In Aesop ...
§ 13.497 (TE2.491) PROVERB SAYING “IF THEY DARE TO DO THESE ON DRY WOOD”
Whether the wood is dry or green
The strength of my word is just the same, ...
§ 13.510 And the dry wood stands for us all.
And thus this does not clarify the writ at all
Because it means that to whom there is not a trace of accusations
That is to those refraining from acting foolishly
He will do something with wet wood, ...
§ 13.522 (TE2.492) HISTORICAL WORD, ...
§ 13.530 (TE2.493) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLOPHYRSIS AND OLOLYGMOS
Olophyrmos is lamentation, ...
§ 13.550 And wrote manifest instead of most unseen, ...
§ 13.561 ABOUT IOULOS (AND ALL IT MEANS. AND ABOUT OULOS (494)
Ioulos is a fish, ...
§ 13.572 (TE2.495 E107) PROVERB, ...
§ 13.580 A goodly sapling and a fair-growing; ...
§ 13.586 (TE2.496 E107) HISTORICAL WORD, ...
§ 13.600 the son of Terpsichore ...
§ 13.614 [postscript, having reached the end of the list of requested glosses]
Now you have your debt paid off completely
Because we recounted all the stories in the lists
Even if I composed them excessively briefly, through fear
There wouldn't be space to include them in the book.
Since I have written them and there is still room on the paper
I should stand up an icon of my benefactors in words
So all those debts should appear as paid off,
Be it on some axones or kyrbeis.
§ 13.620 [LIFE OF HOMER]
The Homeric lineage I will post up here,
But very briefly, and only for this reason,
That you know who Homer's wife and children were.
Because the rest of it I have already written in the Empress' book
The key points of which I will set down here.
The all-wise Homer, the sea of logoi
Except being full of nectar rather than salt water,
Is said to have seven disputed homelands,
To be the scion of seven fathers, likewise disputed.
§ 13.630 Know you that Homer was a Smyrnaean
Son of Meles and Critheis
And leave aside the mythology about his birth.
Know Pornapides as Homer's teacher
His bedmate was called Eurydice,
The daughter of Pastor or Gnostor the Cymaean.
Seriphon and Theolaos were Homer's sons
His daughter was Arsiphone, who married Stasinus,
Stasinus who composed the Cypria,
Which some say was Homer's own work,
§ 13.640 Given to Stasinus as a dowry along with money.
Arctinus from Miletus was Homer's student,
And the poet also had a slave called Byccon,
Whom Tzetzes punning calls bikon and phlaskon (jar and flask)
Homer's books number thirteen.
His era coincides with two military campaigns
The Theban and Trojan, according to many others.
But Apollodorus the chronicler writes
That his time was eighty years after the Trojan War.
Hesiod was at his prime, as I have found in other authors,
During the eleventh Olympiad.
§ 13.650 Homer's end occurred in this way:
It was prophesied that he would die on being asked
A riddle he was unable to solve.
The man was poor, and blind due to old age,
(What sensible person would write that fictional nonsense)
He travelled the whole country of Greece
Reciting his poems, to an honorable welcome.
While being hosted in Arcadia under Creophilus
He went for a walk on the shore.
§ 13.660 He said, “O Arcadian fishermen, what have we here?”
And they answered him, talking about lice,
What they caught they did not have, while what they had they had not caught.
He turned away distraught, not having gotten the joke.
He slipped on some clay and hit on a rock,
Breaking his right-hand ribs, and died on the third day.
Here you have, narrowly: the sea of nectar;
Wise Helicon, indeed the Muses themselves;
Apollo himself, moreover, the leader of the Muses;
The one above all else, great Homer,
§ 13.670 Whence he sprouted, and who he was, whom he brought forth,
His slave, his teacher, his student
His date and his books and where and how he died.
So let us now put a stop with this, make him the seal,
The seal and conclusion of this book of ours.
End of Ioannes Tzetzes' book of history, in political meter, called Alpha, the number of lines being 12759.