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 This edition is superseded by that of P.A.M. Leone (1968/2007) with slightly different line numbers.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 1646 tagged references to 422 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, ...
§ 1.50 He was snatched away from the fire when ...
§ 1.60 Since he had enough horsemen, he left off hunting
And ...
§ 1.70 Whose king was ...
§ 1.80 And drove toward ...
§ 1.89 Oebares, ...
§ 1.102 (T2) CONCERNING MIDAS ...
§ 1.110 Instead, driving his chariot by the oracles an anchor held ...
§ 1.120 Such a one was ...
§ 1.130 And thus fell under the myth that he had Ass’s Ears. ...
§ 1.137 (T3) CONCERNING GYGES
According to some ...
§ 1.150 And told him “Make a choice:
Either kill ...
§ 1.160 The proud copper ...
§ 1.167 (T4) CONCERNING CODRUS
The king of ...
§ 1.180 Acamas and ...
§ 1.190 But most noble of soul.
For once when the ...
§ 1.197 (T5) CONCERNING MEGACLES
There have been ...
§ 1.205 (T6) CONCERNING ALCMAEON ...
§ 1.209 (T7) CONCERNING THE SONS OF BOREAS ...
§ 1.228 (T8) CONCERNING EUPHORBUS
According to ...
§ 1.235 (T9) CONCERNING NARCISSUS ...
§ 1.239 (T10) CONCERNING NIREUS ...
§ 1.241 (T11) CONCERNING HYACINTHUS ...
§ 1.250 But the allegory of ...
§ 1.260 As if the sun rejoiced, turning to the young man
And ...
§ 1.267 To ask me to write for you the actual words of the wise ...
§ 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.
I’ve ...
§ 1.299 In his Theriaca, ...
§ 1.305 (T12) CONCERNING ORPHEUS ...
§ 1.316 (T13) CONCERNING AMPHION
The ...
§ 1.330 (T14) CONCERNING THE SIRENS
About the ...
§ 1.340 Their allegorical meaning has been stated often.
Some ...
§ 1.350 (T15) CONCERNING MARSYAS ...
§ 1.360 “Often the pine makes moan on the spot
Where ...
§ 1.370 He was the son of ...
§ 1.386 (T16) CONCERNING TERPANDER ...
§ 1.393 (T17) CONCERNING ARION ...
§ 1.400 His death-song; he took up his lyre
(In cithara-singing ...
§ 1.416 (T18) CONCERNING THE GOLDEN LAMB OF ATREUS
§ 1.430 In Atreus' flocks ...
§ 1.440 Atreus was about to ...
§ 1.450 He showed him afterwards their legs and arms and drove him ...
§ 1.460 They forced Thyestes ...
§ 1.473 (T19) CONCERNING THE BULL OF MINOS ...
§ 1.480 He said he would have the ...
§ 1.490 Daedalus was the son ...
§ 1.500 As accomplices in his wife's adultery.
He was about to ...
§ 1.510 Now, the bull and ...
§ 1.520 Minos, who was not ...
§ 1.530 Where she had a baby; since the child had two fathers,
§ 1.542 (T20) CONCERNING CEPHALUS’ DOG ...
§ 1.550 He received the gifts and went hunting.
He let fly a ...
§ 1.560 He says there was a commander named Alopex [Fox]
Who ...
§ 1.570 Or else Alopex escaped with his ships
With Cyn in ...
§ 1.573 (T21) CONCERNING MEGACLES
The ...
§ 1.580 For which the crown for the victors was a shoot of wild olive. ...
§ 1.582 (T22) CONCERNING CIMON ...
§ 1.594 (T23) CONCERNING ARISTOPATIRA ...
§ 1.600 They passed through the theater in splendid procession,
§ 1.610 I am not like the other women.
You see, all seven of ...
§ 1.619 (T24) CONCERNING SIMONIDES’ VICTORIES ...
§ 1.630 Simonides wrote a ...
§ 1.640 (T25) CONCERNING STESICHORUS ...
§ 1.650 He even made a door on one side of the ...
§ 1.660 Phalaris heard about ...
§ 1.671 Stesichorus was an ...
§ 1.680 ...
§ 1.690 “Hurrah! Be glad, you, triumphant king ...
§ 1.692 (T26) CONCERNING TYRTAEUS ...
§ 1.700 (T27) CONCERNING HANNIBAL ...
§ 1.710 His head was seen by the ...
§ 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
§ 1.740 He went to get ready the ...
§ 1.750 His brother ...
§ 1.760 ...
§ 1.770 The soldiers did not stop fighting but fearlessly continued. ...
§ 1.780 They were afraid their roots would be vanished.
Then ...
§ 1.790 Then, he left for the third time to marshal against ...
§ 1.800 He expected to find death in Libyssa, his homeland. ...
§ 1.806 (T28) CONCERNING BUCEPHALUS
You already ...
§ 1.812 ( ...
§ 1.821 ( ...
§ 1.826 ( ...
§ 1.830 Darius disembarked ...
§ 1.840 It also includes the ...
§ 1.848 (T32) CONCERNING XERXES
Now hear how ...
§ 1.860 Then Darius sent ...
§ 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 ...
§ 1.900 They were stretched tight from each shore,
They nailed ...
§ 1.910 Imitating his own father, ...
§ 1.920 A marble throne was built, a theater for ...
§ 1.930 Xerxes took nothing ...
§ 1.940 At first he thought himself blessed by prosperity,
But ...
§ 1.950 The army was crossing on an unvarying basis
Numbering ...
§ 1.960 Stood up against them near ...
§ 1.970 And was cutting them all down until the sun's rays.
Or ...
§ 1.980 Sitting on a golden throne he watched the battle.
And ...
§ 1.990 And their Greek allies much emboldened.
He heard they ...
§ 2.1 Barely, after a myriad misfortunes, he crossed to ...
§ 2.10 He who destroyed the splendid youth of ...
§ 2.16 CHILIADES BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ
( ...
§ 2.20 And particularly Gaius ...
§ 2.30 To show a light of safety to cargo vessels in the waves.
§ 2.35 ( ...
§ 2.40 Nerva, an old man, ...
§ 2.50 Calling from the acropolis these words exactly:
“For the ...
§ 2.60 Who had rebelled, withholding tribute to the Romans, ...
§ 2.70 The stones stand one hundred and seventy feet
Apart from ...
§ 2.80 Destroyed the ...
§ 2.90 And eparch of this reigning city [ ...
§ 2.102 ( ...
§ 2.110 Was attacking ...
§ 2.120 And in a space equal to the mirror
Set small fourfold ...
§ 2.130 “Give me where to stand and my lever will move the whole ...
§ 2.140 “Stand away, o man, from my diagram.”
But as the Roman ...
§ 2.150 And with them, many men mention ...
§ 2.157 (T36) CONCERNING HERACLES [relying heavily ...
§ 2.170 When, Alcmena was ...
§ 2.180 Or the one child held back, the other born unfinished, ...
§ 2.190 But rather since ...
§ 2.200 Seized by much love for ...
§ 2.210 ...
§ 2.220 As a monstrosity they erupted into the places referred to.
§ 2.230 Heracles by an oracle ...
§ 2.240 These men Heracles ...
§ 2.250 Heracles, though not ...
§ 2.260 That arouses, frequently, many occasions for malice, ...
§ 2.268 Next, Heracles goes to ...
§ 2.278 Fifth, Heracles ...
§ 2.290 For the sixth labour, with a bronze rattle and his bow, ...
§ 2.299 Eighth, the man-slaying ...
§ 2.310 Since Admete, the ...
§ 2.320 For the tenth labour, the purple ...
§ 2.330 Out of ...
§ 2.340 Driving the cows ...
§ 2.350 Having crossed to the ...
§ 2.360 The guard of these apples was a sleepless dragon, the son of ...
§ 2.372 Heeding the counsels of ...
§ 2.380 Saying the nymphs were the seasons, the apples the stars,
§ 2.388 So then, having brought the apples to ...
§ 2.400 Covered only by his ...
§ 2.412 Now then, after the aforementioned labours, ...
§ 2.420 Who had just saved ...
§ 2.430 The daughter of ...
§ 2.440 As swift Hermes with ...
§ 2.450 And Cteatus and ...
§ 2.460 This Nessus gave ...
§ 2.470 After plundering ...
§ 2.480 For the blood of ...
§ 2.490 Cutting together with words, ...
§ 2.500 Tenth, he drove the ...
§ 2.508 (T37) CONCERNING SAMSON ...
§ 2.520 As Samson was ...
§ 2.530 Killed a thousand of them with a jawbone of a ...
§ 2.540 Had their strength in these hairs they. When shaved clean of ...
§ 2.550 But Samson, ...
§ 2.555 (T38) CONCERNING POLYDAMAS OF SKOTOUSSA ...
§ 2.560 (T39) CONCERNING MILO THE WRESTLER
This ...
§ 2.569 (T40) CONCERNING AEGON, IDAS, LYNCEUS, ...
§ 2.580 As Theocritus ...
§ 2.590 While Heracles had one ...
§ 2.600 A ten-amphora jug, though calling it a one-amphora size;
§ 2.602 (T41) CONCERNING DAMOXENUS ...
§ 2.605 (T42) CONCERNING IPHICLUS ...
§ 2.610 “Nor was anyone swifter than vigorous ...
§ 2.613 (T43) CONCERNING EUPHEMUS ...
§ 2.620 (Just as even ...
§ 2.626 (T44) CONCERNING PROTEUS ...
§ 2.641 (T45) CONCERNING PERICLYMENUS ...
§ 2.650 The quickness of leopards, the great strength of ...
§ 2.654 (T46) CONCERNING THETIS
They say that ...
§ 2.660 And to be meat for beasts in inaccessible mountains. ...
§ 2.665 (T47) CONCERNING MESTRA ...
§ 2.686 (T48) CONCERNING CASTOR AND POLYDEUCES ...
§ 2.700 For in this way the stars of the Twins rise.
But others ...
§ 2.710 Even, in addition to them, ...
§ 2.717 (T49) CONCERNING AETHALIDES ...
§ 2.723 (T50) CONCERNING ARISTEAS ...
§ 2.730 Aristeas, having ...
§ 2.741 (T51) CONCERNING THESEUS ...
§ 2.750 (For the ...
§ 2.759 (T52) CONCERNING PROTESILAUS
This ...
§ 2.770 That the above mentioned wife of ...
§ 2.780 She died with her good and newly married husband,
Just ...
§ 2.785 (T53) CONCERNING ALCESTIS ...
§ 2.800 But in no way reporting his misfortune to his friend ...
§ 2.810 Alcmena, daughter ...
§ 2.820 And when Admetus ...
§ 2.830 After marching against ...
§ 2.840 For neither do I want alien works to be made my own, ...
§ 2.843 (T54) CONCERNING EURYDICE ...
§ 2.850 Was delighted by ...
§ 2.860 “If he should wish to know, he will learn both as many ...
§ 2.868 (T55 CONCERNING THALES, PYTHAGORAS, ...
§ 2.880 Wherefore some even called those people “before the ...
§ 2.888 [T56] Pythagoras was ...
§ 2.892 [T57] ...
§ 2.898 [T58] And ...
§ 2.910 And again, if you should wish, you will bring in avenging ...
§ 2.920 (T59) CONCERNING LAIUS ...
§ 2.925 (T60) CONCERNING APOLLONIUS OF TYANA ...
§ 2.930 Apollonius drove out ...
§ 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 ...
§ 2.960 Apollonius was thrown ...
§ 2.970 I know countless things of this man ...
§ 2.980 (T61) CONCERNING DEMOCRITUS
Abderan ...
§ 2.990 Since he knew such a wise man on account of them.
This ...
§ 3.1 CHILIADES BOOK 3, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ
( ...
§ 3.12 (T63) CONCERNING ERICHTHONIUS
Let ...
§ 3.21 (T64) CONCERNING JOB ...
§ 3.30 (T65) CONCERNING PYTHIUS THE LYDIAN
You ...
§ 3.39 (T66) CONCERNING HERACLIUS ...
§ 3.50 With firebrands always succeeding that illumination,
And ...
§ 3.60 Old contemporary ...
§ 3.65 (T67) CONCERNING PTOLEMY
The ...
§ 3.70 “He rules over many lands, and many seas.
There are both ...
§ 3.76 (T68) CONCERNING GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR ...
§ 3.83 (T69) CONCERNING SESOSTRIS
That ...
§ 3.90 Using riddles to show by example the lack of cohesion in ...
§ 3.100 And Callisthenes ...
§ 3.102 (T70) CONCERNING CATO
Drawing his roots ...
§ 3.110 Cato was his son’s ...
§ 3.120 Of exercises, horsemanship, and every type of armed fighting. ...
§ 3.130 In this way Cato ...
§ 3.140 He made victory doubtful for the Romans;
But he did not ...
§ 3.150 Was a brother of ...
§ 3.160 Used to lift me up and push me forward more
Than a ...
§ 3.170 But if anyone even wants to understand what sort of man ...
§ 3.180 This dryness had met with both of us because of a lack of ...
§ 3.190 To not be overpowered by money, and I am attended by a fire ...
§ 3.200 And I will deliver the fatherland of cruel tyrants.” ...
§ 3.210 And at the ...
§ 3.220 Who, being blind like Aman, makes all things blind.
For ...
§ 3.232 (T71-T73)CONCERNING CATO, ...
§ 3.233 [T72] Solon, I was ...
§ 3.236 [T73] Now the physician ...
§ 3.242 (T74) CONCERNING HECUBA
The story of ...
§ 3.249 (T75) CONCERNING POLYMESTOR ...
§ 3.260 (T76) CONCERNING AJAX THE SON OF TELAMON
§ 3.270 Ajax himself becomes ...
§ 3.272 (T77-T88 CONCERNING AGAMEMNON, DIOMEDES, ...
§ 3.278 Agamemnon turned out ...
§ 3.280 [T78] And Diomedes ...
§ 3.291 [T79] Idomeneus, ...
§ 3.299 [T80] I pass in silence over ...
§ 3.310 [T82] I omit ...
§ 3.313 (T83 and ...
§ 3.316 (T85) CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF MAURICE, ...
§ 3.320 [T86] I omit telling how ...
§ 3.322 [T87] Gelimer was ...
§ 3.330 The former, so that I can represent in tragedy my heavy ...
§ 3.339 CONCERNING BELISARIUS THE GENERAL (T88...
§ 3.349 CONCERNING DARIUS WHOM ALEXANDER DEFEATED, REGULUS THE ROMAN, ...
§ 3.360 Then shutting him in a small, very narrow hut,
And ...
§ 3.370 By the Romans, were trying to hand over the city into slavery. ...
§ 3.380 From the beneficiaries, ...
§ 3.388 (T92) CONCERNING THE WOODEN CORPSE
The ...
§ 3.390 A household slave, bringing around a wooden corpse at the ...
§ 3.393 ( ...
§ 3.339 ( ...
§ 3.411 ( ...
§ 3.420 And wearing the clothing that women also wear, ...
§ 3.430 And in the first assault, they were defeated immediately;
§ 3.440 Belesys,—receiving ...
§ 3.450 Diodorus Siculus ...
§ 3.458 (T96) CONCERNING HISTIAEUS THE MILESIAN ...
§ 3.470 When, therefore, ...
§ 3.480 But Darius ...
§ 3.490 But Histiaeus, ...
§ 3.500 Wherefore Darius ...
§ 3.510 And brings him away with him to the land of ...
§ 3.520 Learning of this, ...
§ 3.530 Having caused more confusion to the cities that were never at ...
§ 3.540 At last, having cried excessively, ...
§ 3.544 ( ...
§ 3.550 Once Darius ...
§ 3.561 ( ...
§ 3.570 (For reasons which I spoke of previously), when the battle ...
§ 3.580 For to begin with, to ...
§ 3.590 Enough to satisfy the most insatiable soul,
He sent to ...
§ 3.600 But some Mede, a lover of music, upon hearing this, had ...
§ 3.610 “By Zeus,” ...
§ 3.620 And Gadatas ...
§ 3.630 Cyrus spoke to ...
§ 3.640 And why do I say to you that ...
§ 3.648 ( ...
§ 3.660 As Araspas was about to be dead from shame;
Secretly ...
§ 3.670 In the exact word, becomes numbered among the spies, ...
§ 3.680 To Abradatas, her ...
§ 3.690 Now Abradatas goes ...
§ 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 ...
§ 3.730 To advance from there, and says to ...
§ 3.740 He at once ascended onto his chariot.
As, after ...
§ 3.750 And on his left, ...
§ 3.760 And these men died there, chopped up,
Though seeming to ...
§ 3.770 Is said to convey it here to you, ...
§ 3.780 Crying and weeping much, he spoke to the woman:
“Even ...
§ 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 ...
§ 3.818 (T101) CONCERNING 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 ...
§ 3.862 Marcus Corvinus ...
§ 3.862 I am leaving out ...
§ 3.869 I am leaving out Kalandos, and Nonnus, and Eidus with him,
§ 3.879 [T110] I am passing over the kindness of ...
§ 3.885 [T111] I am leaving out a description of ...
§ 3.890 I omit to add a myriad Greeks and barbarians
Who were ...
§ 3.892 (T112) CONCERNING OSYMANDYAS, ...
§ 3.897 (T113) CONCERNING A SNAKE OF PTOLEMY ...
§ 3.910 And previously, pursuing the beast heedlessly,
Two or ...
§ 3.920 But they were not following near its side, lest even they be ...
§ 3.930 Therefore, hardly bringing this beast at that time to ...
§ 3.940 Aelian says that ...
§ 3.950 CONCERNING THE DOG OF NICOMEDES, ...
§ 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.
Taking ...
§ 3.988 ( ...
§ 3.1000 4.1 CHILIADES BOOK 4, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ ...
§ 4.10 And Aelian relates ...
§ 4.20 There both of them expiring, ended their life.
In the ...
§ 4.24 ABOUT ARION THE METHYMNAEAN
About ...
§ 4.26 ( ...
§ 4.40 As it was streaming downwards from the junction beside the yoke ...
§ 4.41 CONCERNING THE SHARED SYMPATHY OF ANIMALS
To tell of the ...
§ 4.45 ( ...
§ 4.49 (T120) CONCERNING CRANES AND GEESE ...
§ 4.60 Undertake the flight and passage towards ...
§ 4.70 The protectors within those times stand on one foot,
Each ...
§ 4.75 (T121) CONCERNING DEER AND WOLVES
Even ...
§ 4.83 (T122) CONCERNING ELEPHANTS
For other ...
§ 4.90 When their own fathers are old, they feed them;
Passing ...
§ 4.100 But when newborn elephants fall completely in the deep ...
§ 4.103 (T123) CONCERNING LIONS, EAGLES, DOLPHINS, ...
§ 4.108 (T124) CONCERNING MARES
Mares, having ...
§ 4.110 (T125) CONCERNING BEES
Bees are ruled ...
§ 4.120 Another group to house build, and others to do other things. ...
§ 4.131 (T126) CONCERNING LAND MICE, PARROTFISH, ...
§ 4.140 It might become far from the beast, with the hook cut. ...
§ 4.150 Now the land dog ...
§ 4.153 ( ...
§ 4.157 (T128) CONCERNING THE DOG OF ERIGONE ...
§ 4.170 But this story of ...
§ 4.180 Who slew her and ...
§ 4.182 (T129) CONCERNING THE DOG OF XANTHIPPUS
§ 4.190 At that time, even this above-mentioned ...
§ 4.200 ( ...
§ 4.211 ( ...
§ 4.220 And punished this man with crucifixion.
Some chronicler ...
§ 4.227 [T132?] Since we mentioned ...
§ 4.232 Of Calvus, a ...
§ 4.235 For ...
§ 4.240 The little dog sat ...
§ 4.250 For Darius the ...
§ 4.258 A bitch in ...
§ 4.261 With Daphnis, a ...
§ 4.263 Now for Polus, a ...
§ 4.270 Once a wolf saved ...
§ 4.279 ( ...
§ 4.288 ( ...
§ 4.300 Even this eagle, ...
§ 4.310 After it saw a snake ...
§ 4.313 ( ...
§ 4.320 Now this same thing happened to an ...
§ 4.330 Now learn who ...
§ 4.339 Horned snakes even ...
§ 4.351 (T136) CONCERNING THE TREES OF GERYON
§ 4.357 (T137) CONCERNING THE POPLARS OF PHAETHON
§ 4.370 He was thrown from the chariot and died in the streams of ...
§ 4.380 And his female relatives mourned for him passionately. ...
§ 4.389 ( ...
§ 4.393 ( ...
§ 4.400 (T140) CONCERNING MAGNESIA, ...
§ 4.410 To purify it of the oxidation again, rub it with gold dust. ...
§ 4.416 (T141) CONCERNING NIOBE, ...
§ 4.430 But Zeus, then, made ...
§ 4.440 “The sky possesses two large lights,
But I possess so ...
§ 4.450 Because, being without feeling as a result of every suffering, ...
§ 4.467 (TE1) Receive the little letter after the ...
§ 4.472 To Lachanas the Zabareian: for indeed, on these things you ...
§ 4.480 For singing to the cithara, ...
§ 4.490 For Bucephalus, ...
§ 4.500 By a deep canal, of making ...
§ 4.510 On destroying ...
§ 4.520 And, by both dying and living, ...
§ 4.530 Who with only the heated exhalations of bread,
For ...
§ 4.540 Filling a whole artabas full of golden coins.
If you ...
§ 4.550 Four hundred myriads minus seven thousand.
So if all ...
§ 4.560 Judge us unworthy of a written greeting,
Although by ...
§ 4.570 For when my fifteenth year was running near,
Watching ...
§ 4.580 Hecuba, ...
§ 4.590 But by day was the teacher of lessons
With moderate ...
§ 4.600 But I am distressed as I look down upon you harming yourself ...
§ 4.610 But after an investigation, he makes ...
§ 4.620 Osymandyas, the ...
§ 4.630 But when Artybius ...
§ 4.640 And, I was telling, in turn, for ...
§ 4.650 Only his dog, ...
§ 4.660 Now being with him at the inn, the ...
§ 4.670 I skip over the ...
§ 4.680 Some boy in ...
§ 4.691 There was previously, a fig-tree beside us, well-fruited;
§ 4.700 It split apart the next day, from crown to root,
And ...
§ 4.708 Now for the ...
§ 4.711 And why do I teach you about these small and narrow ...
§ 4.720 So lest you seem to me more lacking in affection than even ...
§ 4.730 Timotheus, that ...
§ 4.740 Tullius Servius, a ...
§ 4.750 Why do I chat to you about the majority of things, things of ...
§ 4.760 Who previously led into slavery the entire land of the ...
§ 4.770 And neither to exult in the cold vanities of life,
Nor ...
§ 4.781 OF THE SAME JOHN TZETZES, ...
§ 4.784 (TE1.1 E1) [from letter ...
§ 4.786 (TE1.2) CONCERNING BEKESELENOI
The ...
§ 4.800 When the bodyguards of the king came,
The little babies ...
§ 4.810 Some say, as I was saying, that the races of the ...
§ 4.821 You have the whole story of the Bekeselenoi people, ...
§ 4.833 (TE1.3) CONCERNING THE BLITOMAMMAN ...
§ 4.836 ( ...
§ 4.850 Just as the son of the Country-folk, that most-wise man,
§ 4.860 He being loud-voiced even for a barbarian,
Kept crying ...
§ 4.872 (TE1.5) CONCERNING MAMMAKYTHOS ...
§ 4.875 (TE1.6) CONCERNING ACCO
Acco was a ...
§ 4.887 (TE1.7) CONCERNING GRY
Gry is the ...
§ 4.892 ( ...
§ 4.900 They throw their arms around one another and become among ...
§ 4.910 And Hades has ...
§ 4.920 Is another allegory, and I said it is in ...
§ 4.924 ( ...
§ 4.933 [TE1.10] Topos 10 in this series is ...
§ 4.933 (TE1.11) CONCERNING THE CUMAEAN ASS ...
§ 4.940 And that, as a bride sitting in her bridal chamber,
She ...
§ 4.950 (Now this ...
§ 4.960 ( ...
§ 4.965 (TE1.13) CONCERNING RHESUS, ...
§ 4.970 “Not one man, good in soul, deems it worthy, covertly, ...
§ 4.972 ( ...
§ 4.980 Until: “For I have not shivered at combat, nor at the din of ...
§ 4.982 ( ...
§ 4.990 As one man will be marshalled against the so-and-so of the ...
§ 4.996 ( ...
§ 4.1002 [5.1] And sending him to the virgin daughter of ...
§ 5.9 CHILIADES BOOK 5, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS ...
§ 5.17 ( ...
§ 5.24 ( ...
§ 5.40 Learn the allegory behind this -for who will leave without ...
§ 5.50 In the end, Lycurgus ...
§ 5.60 In no way would I desire a fight against such a man.” ...
§ 5.69 (TE1.20) CONCERNING THE MOLIONIDS
The ...
§ 5.80 They even scorned their own mother, who told them:
“You ...
§ 5.90 They saw Heracles’ hairy ...
§ 5.100 (TE1.21) CONCERNING CACUS
This man, ...
§ 5.111 (TE1.22) CONCERNING THE CENTAUR ASBOLUS
§ 5.120 The smell from the wine spread through the air, ...
§ 5.130 For this man, ...
§ 5.138 ( ...
§ 5.150 And so the former sold him.
But this one is also false; ...
§ 5.160 Dionysius had ...
§ 5.170 And gave them his own scripts to correct
Not sell them ...
§ 5.186 So now you are holding the historiai of the first letter;
§ 5.200 The ones some plundered from the palaces,
Their places ...
§ 5.203 CONCERNING ATLAS: THE FIRST Story ( ...
§ 5.210 And then again in the ...
§ 5.220 And Bousiris to ...
§ 5.230 And, so, he fled from the land of ...
§ 5.240 But Hermes stole it ...
§ 5.250 Caused this confusions of terms in times ancient
Had it ...
§ 5.260 And against Bousiris ...
§ 5.270 Its very creator.
That’s why they say that ...
§ 5.280 Namely forty six generations
And from ...
§ 5.290 ( ...
§ 5.300 “Use no alluring pretext against me”.
“And don’t tinker ...
§ 5.309 ( ...
§ 5.317 ( ...
§ 5.330 We will put together an army, prepare the cavalry
And ...
§ 5.338 (TE2.5) CONCERNING SOLON, ...
§ 5.350 Seven years after ...
§ 5.360 And leave his legislation to be tested,
Should the ...
§ 5.370 Solon began to weep ...
§ 5.380 But when Solon did ...
§ 5.387 (TE2.6) CONCERNING THE BIRD PHOENIX ...
§ 5.399 (TE2.7) CONCERNING THE UNICORN
The ...
§ 5.412 ( ...
§ 5.422 ( ...
§ 5.430 But I think their issue is that both animals are kings and ...
§ 5.440 “As a lion he was ...
§ 5.444 ( ...
§ 5.450 But if Tmolus ...
§ 5.460 For disclosing the mysteries to the uninitiated,
The ...
§ 5.470 Others say that an unbridled tongue got him cast out, ...
§ 5.480 They say was what brought about Tantalus's method of ...
§ 5.490 All laden with fruit.
But should he want to drink, it ...
§ 5.500 (TE2.11) CONCERNING WHY EROS HAS A BOW, ...
§ 5.510 ( ...
§ 5.520 And Perseus the deer ...
§ 5.530 “Do you see how our empress’ beloved Mehlebe suffers?” ...
§ 5.540 And enjoys the same food and all the aforementioned. ...
§ 5.545 ( ...
§ 5.550 ( ...
§ 5.555 ( ...
§ 5.564 ( ...
§ 5.583 ( ...
§ 5.590 Along with lady Mariam the ...
§ 5.600 From one of his respectable wife’s consorts,
Namely the ...
§ 5.610 He had three daughters and one of them, Eudocia, was ...
§ 5.620 And the father of this last one was a scion of ...
§ 5.629 ( ...
§ 5.637 (TE2.19) CONCERNING CECROPS ...
§ 5.640 Or as fluent in both the ...
§ 5.650 And for another reason they call ...
§ 5.660 And gave the city its name after Sais.
And among the ...
§ 5.670 He was ...
§ 5.682 ( ...
§ 5.690 The words that end in –aios follow the ou– declension and ...
§ 5.699 ( ...
§ 5.710 And for those that immerse themselves in books about ...
§ 5.717 ( ...
§ 5.726 (TE2.23) CONCERNING THE WORD CATHARMA
§ 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 ...
§ 5.760 The second the one who uses drugs for healing;
And the ...
§ 5.762 (TE2.24) CONCERNING THE APPLE OF ERIS
§ 5.770 She then threw the apple from a rooftop in the middle of the ...
§ 5.777 ( ...
§ 5.781 (TE2.26) CONCERNING THE GRAMMARIAN, ...
§ 5.790 For the ...
§ 5.796 ( ...
§ 5.804 (TE2.28) CONCERNING PALAMEDES, ...
§ 5.820 Wake up in the early morning and go visit holy ...
§ 5.829 ( ...
§ 5.834 ( ...
§ 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 ...
§ 5.870 “Polycleitus the ...
§ 5.880 And he also asks from him not to request money,
So that ...
§ 5.890 He sent to Phalaris ...
§ 5.900 “I spared them for their honesty. For when they were asked why ...
§ 5.910 Take these five talents and give them to her.
Write in ...
§ 5.920 Needed one, even though they did not say so.
He burnt ...
§ 5.930 He was a dear friend to ...
§ 5.940 Such were the deeds of ...
§ 5.950 So that they do not become whores
And nothing hinders ...
§ 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 ...
§ 5.975 ( ...
§ 5.982 (TE2.34) CONCERNING CEPHALUS
The ...
§ 5.990 Cephalus gave them ...
§ 5.1000 (TE2.35) CONCERNING CTESIPHON, ...
§ 6.4 CHILIADES BOOK 6, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS ...
§ 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,
Even the ...
§ 6.40 The one Lysias ...
§ 6.50 -All these had the approval of the city of ...
§ 6.60 Thus did Aeschines do ...
§ 6.64 ( ...
§ 6.70 So, listen once more about ...
§ 6.80 Where the enemy hands him gifts, the so called “gardens” ...
§ 6.90 And then he began advocating and speaking publicly, ...
§ 6.100 But they refused to pay him
And dragged him instead to ...
§ 6.110 The rest think of him as filthy and although ...
§ 6.120 Are you willing to stand against ...
§ 6.130 Of his status and roots he boasts
And puckers his ...
§ 6.140 As being clear signs of his hollow nature
And of none ...
§ 6.150 And spoke rubbing his head, such was his habit.
Which ...
§ 6.160 “They accused my father of being a foreigner among other ...
§ 6.170 Demosthenes instantly ...
§ 6.180 Being, thus, put to trial according to the ...
§ 6.186 (TE2.38) CONCERNING PYTHO OF BYZANTIUM, ...
§ 6.201 (TE2.39) CONCERNING CLUSINUS, ...
§ 6.210 Porsenna seized him ...
§ 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 ...
§ 6.247 (TE2.41) CONCERNING PERSEUS, ...
§ 6.253 (TE2.42) CONCERNING SOMNA AND ELOACEIM, ...
§ 6.260 On the fourteenth year of ...
§ 6.270 From them murdered the messenger thousands during the night ...
§ 6.273 (TE2.43) CONCERNING DIOPHANTES, ...
§ 6.279 ( ...
§ 6.290 These women were responsible for the queen’s hair and nails. ...
§ 6.303 ( ...
§ 6.309 ( ...
§ 6.320 When the son said to ...
§ 6.331 (TE2.47) CONCERNING LEMPHO, ...
§ 6.342 (TE2.48) CONCERNING BATTUS, ...
§ 6.350 But Phoebus the god ...
§ 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”; (Il. 2.128)
Many ...
§ 6.400 If anyone sees the histories here as too brief,
And ...
§ 6.410 ( ...
§ 6.420 He was given the name ...
§ 6.424 (TE2.52) CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF HEROD, ...
§ 6.430 Alexander was born ...
§ 6.440 Is this petty man still alive? Does he still see the light of ...
§ 6.450 Found then unexpected salvation
And ...
§ 6.460 And then ...
§ 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 ...
§ 6.504 (TE2.56) CONCERNING PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS, ...
§ 6.508 (TE2.57) CONCERNING HELENUS, ...
§ 6.516 ( ...
§ 6.518 ( ...
§ 6.27 ( ...
§ 6.540 They thought they were under attack and fled to all ...
§ 6.550 They took battle positions against the Romans
And were ...
§ 6.561 ( ...
§ 6.570 From Zeus and ...
§ 6.580 So does Euripides ...
§ 6.592 (TE2.62) “YOU THINK I AM MARGITES?” ...
§ 6.600 ( ...
§ 6.607 ( ...
§ 6.614 ( ...
§ 6.621 ( ...
§ 6.630 She will reach out to your neck and hang her arms around you. ...
§ 6.639 (TE2.67) CONCERNING LIQUID SILVER ...
§ 6.646 ( ...
§ 6.655 ( ...
§ 6.660 (TE2.70) PROVERB “YOU WOUNDED ME, ...
§ 6.667 ( ...
§ 6.675 ( ...
§ 6.690 This Midas was a ...
§ 6.700 (TE2.73) CONCERNING THE TERMS DIAULUS, ...
§ 6.708 (TE2.74) CONCERNING THE LOTUS
There ...
§ 6.714 (TE2.75 E8) CONCERNING THE SIRENS ...
§ 6.720 ( ...
§ 6.730 Of his father or brother or even his dear son.
I have ...
§ 6.739 (TE2.77) CONCERNING ODYSSEUS, ...
§ 6.744 ( ...
§ 6.748 ( ...
§ 6.760 How to counter the opponent’s arguments and how to present ...
§ 6.770 The rest are called specific.
But the wise ...
§ 6.780 And there are also other types, most similar to legal ...
§ 6.790 Wishing to teach those things to the rest of the orators
§ 6.800 So he came upon such things by scheming and plotting ...
§ 6.810 Where should he put forth his arguments and where not ...
§ 6.822 (TE2.80E9) CONCERNING NOAH’S ARK
The ...
§ 6.825 ( ...
§ 6.834 (TE2.82) CONCERNING PROMETHEUS ...
§ 6.843 [TE2.83]) ... Eden means “comfortable”, Eden the warm... ...
§ 6.843 (TE2.84 E11) CONCERNING PHILOPOEMEN, ...
§ 6.858 ( ...
§ 6.870 So jeering is the sheer act of hybris and comedy
While ...
§ 6.880 And, in demonstration of manly courage, each drank down his ...
§ 6.890 Which means that they spew it out and emptied their mouths. ...
§ 6.900 ( ...
§ 6.910 (TE2.87 E12) CONCERNING METAMELEIA, ...
§ 6.917 (TE2.88 E13) CONCERNING HELICON ...
§ 6.921 (TE2.89) CONCERNING THE MUSES
They ...
§ 6.931 (TE2.90) CONCERNING PIERIA ...
§ 6.940 And praise their father with dances on the mountain of ...
§ 6.945 (TE2.91) CONCERNING LEIBETHRION ...
§ 6.949 ( ...
§ 6.953 ( ...
§ 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. PELION ...
§ 6.977 (TE2.96) CONCERNING THE STORY OF JASON
§ 6.989 ( ...
§ 6.994 (TE2.98) CONCERNING ACHILLES ...
§ 6.1000 [7.1] BOOK 7, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI
( ...
§ 7.10 Now who the Centaurs ...
§ 7.20 Suggests that the ...
§ 7.30 But it did not happen like that, ...
§ 7.40 Begot a son, Imbrus, whom people were calling “ ...
§ 7.49 ( ...
§ 7.57 (TE2.101) CONCERNING THE NEMEAN LION
§ 7.65 (TE2.102) CONCERNING THE CALYDONIAN BOAR
§ 7.71 Of the many huntsmen who gathered there, ...
§ 7.75 ( ...
§ 7.78 ( ...
§ 7.81 ( ...
§ 7.84 (TE2.106) CONCERNING MARSYAS ...
§ 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 ...
§ 7.102 ( ...
§ 7.108 (TE2.110) CONCERNING THE LIVING ONE, ...
§ 7.114 (TE2.111) CONCERNING HERACLES, ...
§ 7.118 ( ...
§ 7.123 ( ...
§ 7.130 They have been named Alastores, a most suitable name. ...
§ 7.133 ( ...
§ 7.140 As for them, whom they send for matters of treaties, ...
§ 7.142 (TE2.115) WHAT IS A PROBOLOS ...
§ 7.150 A protrusion (probolos) is a rock jutting into the sea, as ...
§ 7.154 ( ...
§ 7.159 (TE2.117) CONCERNING CILICIA
The ...
§ 7.167 (TE2.118) CONCERNING ANTIOCH
As ...
§ 7.181 ( ...
§ 7.190 As it happens with the caper, according to some of the ...
§ 7.195 ( ...
§ 7.203 ( ...
§ 7.210 So then Polycrates ...
§ 7.221 ( ...
§ 7.224 (TE2.123) CONCERNING MIDAS ...
§ 7.231 ( ...
§ 7.239 ( ...
§ 7.249 ( ...
§ 7.251 (TE2.127) CONCERNING THE LYDIAN STONE, ...
§ 7.260 And after them, they have named basanos the punishments,
§ 7.262 ( ...
§ 7.270 The one who speaks anything but the right words,
Call a ...
§ 7.273 ( ...
§ 7.280 And since the rumours of this case were quickly spread, ...
§ 7.287 ( ...
§ 7.290 ( ...
§ 7.299 ( ...
§ 7.307 (TE2.133) CONCERNING AEACUS, ...
§ 7.322 ( ...
§ 7.330 After their coming out of the ark, both men and women ...
§ 7.340 Whereas, they ought to have said it in this way: there were as ...
§ 7.343 (TE2.135) CONCERNING PRIAM, ...
§ 7.348 ( ...
§ 7.360 And mother of another king, equally, he spoke in this way:
§ 7.370 As well as Danaus ...
§ 7.377 ( ...
§ 7.387 ( ...
§ 7.400 ( ...
§ 7.410 In such a piteous way ...
§ 7.420 Concerning the reconstruction of the city in this way saying ...
§ 7.430 After even being victorious in the pancratium, the second ...
§ 7.441 ( ...
§ 7.446 (TE2.141) CONCERNING PTOLEMY, ...
§ 7.459 ( ...
§ 7.470 Procne, after ...
§ 7.480 ( ...
§ 7.490 Thought (dianoia) is the touchstone of inward thought (logos ...
§ 7.500 And needing judgement of calculation (logismos) to come to ...
§ 7.504 Know well, then, these things according to ...
§ 7.518 But you wise scumbags, listen to me again.
We say that ...
§ 7.528 So we speak properly of Mind (nous) pertaining to divine ...
§ 7.536 Now from this, my all-wise vilifiers,
Absorb what we ...
§ 7.550 Phaenno many years ...
§ 7.560 Who shall plunder the treasures of your country,
And ...
§ 7.570 Wretched ...
§ 7.580 Because of them, they said that a few men partake of Mind ...
§ 7.590 We must speak of the antipodes and of the ideas.
The ...
§ 7.600 Grabbed him by the hand and led him to a lake and after ...
§ 7.610 For they are more indiscernible than the indiscernible ...
§ 7.620 First, he comprehends via reasoning and he perceives ...
§ 7.629 ( ...
§ 7.640 He tells of these things as if they were true and not ...
§ 7.650 Among those men, whose writings in complex metres I am ...
§ 7.660 Now hear the verses of ...
§ 7.670 And Philostephanus ...
§ 7.680 And even Herodotus ...
§ 7.690 Rich in horses, ...
§ 7.700 Campasus, which pours its water into the divine, immortal sea. ...
§ 7.710 Persistently insists that such things do not exist.
In ...
§ 7.720 Of whom some shaded their faces with their ears,
While ...
§ 7.730 Uranius somewhere ...
§ 7.740 Two fathoms wide, who would believe him?
Whose one ...
§ 7.750 And for the histories he would need more books, ...
§ 7.759 Everyone writes about the things we mentioned above as if they ...
§ 7.769 (TE2.145) CONCERNING THE BREAD OBELIAS
§ 7.778 ( ...
§ 7.790 The voluptuousness of the man is clearly demonstrated to you ...
§ 7.795 ( ...
§ 7.807 ( ...
§ 7.810 ( ...
§ 7.820 He avoided murdering him with his own hands;
After ...
§ 7.830 So that the youth would be killed in combat with it. ...
§ 7.840 Whom Homer depicts as ...
§ 7.850 Iobates set ...
§ 7.860 And his other victories, as it happens to many people. ...
§ 7.870 So having been in this way deprived of his eyes, his children, ...
§ 7.882 ( ...
§ 7.887 ( ...
§ 7.898 ( ...
§ 7.910 The one which was done after careful consideration, and rather ...
§ 7.920 For example, just like the heavy rain waters the dry ground, ...
§ 7.927 ( ...
§ 7.929 (TE2.154) CONCERNING HOW PHEIDIAS, ...
§ 7.944 ( ...
§ 7.950 Sostratus begot ...
§ 7.960 And by Herodicus of ...
§ 7.970 The medical art. He wrote
Fifty three books. And then ...
§ 7.980 They say there are four reasons for this:
Either ...
§ 7.990 ( ...
§ 7.1000 He was fined a thousand drachmas by the ...
§ 7.1000 8.7 BOOK 8, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI
( ...
§ 8.12 ( ...
§ 8.18 ( ...
§ 8.23 ( ...
§ 8.30 ( ...
§ 8.45 ( ...
§ 8.49 ( ...
§ 8.52 ( ...
§ 8.60 ( ...
§ 8.65 ( ...
§ 8.70 But if cold weather arrives, it remains silent and ceases its ...
§ 8.80 This happen to be a foolish myth that needs to be interpreted ...
§ 8.92 ( ...
§ 8.95 ( ...
§ 8.100 ( ...
§ 8.110 “He ravished a maiden and tamed her against her ...
§ 8.121 Paragrammatism is very close to parody,
Even if ...
§ 8.130 Now that you have learned what is pasting and what is parody, ...
§ 8.132 ( ...
§ 8.141 (TE2.171) CONCERNING TYPHON ...
§ 8.145 ( ...
§ 8.150 ( ...
§ 8.160 (TE2.174) CONCERNING A HISTORICAL WORD, ...
§ 8.165 ( ...
§ 8.177 ( ...
§ 8.190 Death becomes intelligible to ...
§ 8.192 (TE2.177) CONCERNING THE DEATH, ...
§ 8.198 (TE2.178) CONCERNING THE MUCUS EARWAX
§ 8.208 ( ...
§ 8.220 “But, that the spirit of man can be brought back again, ...
§ 8.222 ( ...
§ 8.230 Writing in iambic verses ...
§ 8.233 ( ...
§ 8.240 That very man was most nobly philosophizing,
And he ...
§ 8.246 ( ...
§ 8.254 (TE2.183) CONCERNING THE RIVER ILISSOS
§ 8.258 ( ...
§ 8.266 ( ...
§ 8.270 (TE2.186) WHAT LARINOS IS
Note that ...
§ 8.279 ( ...
§ 8.286 ( ...
§ 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, the peritiara, ...
§ 8.314 ( ...
§ 8.319 (TE2.191) CONCERNING POLYKLEITOS ...
§ 8.325 (TE2.192) CONCERNING PHIDIAS ...
§ 8.330 The ivory Athena ...
§ 8.340 (TE2.193) CONCERNING ALCAMENES ...
§ 8.350 Striving for decorum more than the others,
According to ...
§ 8.360 And considering that the whole shape would seem much smaller ...
§ 8.370 (TE2.194) CONCERNING MYRON ...
§ 8.375 (TE2.195) CONCERNING PRAXITELES ...
§ 8.388 (TE2.196) CONCERNING ZEUXIS ...
§ 8.392 (TE2.197) CONCERNING APELLES ...
§ 8.388 (TE2.198) CONCERNING PARRHASIUS ...
§ 8.408 (TE2.199) CONCERNING STASICRATES ...
§ 8.416 (TE2.200) CONCERNING LYSIPPOS
And ...
§ 8.435 ( ...
§ 8.442 (TE2.202) CONCERNING AUTOLYCUS’ THEFTS
§ 8.450 For whenever he stole, he replaced the stolen goods and ...
§ 8.461 ( ...
§ 8.470 But he even wears his regular most feminine clothing, ...
§ 8.478 ( ...
§ 8.490 That the very things which he interprets are the children of ...
§ 8.500 (TE2.205) CONCERNING THE BIRD OF ATHENA, ...
§ 8.510 The king of all birds in borrowed plumage.
This is the ...
§ 8.520 According to which the jackdaw was exceptionally deformed ...
§ 8.523 ( ...
§ 8.530 The Owl is said to be the bird of ...
§ 8.537 (TE2.207) CONCERNING THE DRONES, ...
§ 8.550 Whoever says something else writing about the drones, ...
§ 8.552 ( ...
§ 8.560 The ...
§ 8.570 ( ...
§ 8.574 (TE2.210) CONCERNING THE INDIANS ...
§ 8.582 ( ...
§ 8.588 (TE2.212) CONCERNING THE EASTERN OCEAN
§ 8.600 For out of the ...
§ 8.610 And he says that the rivers and the earthquakes, that burst, ...
§ 8.620 In turn, two other mouths on the South
Formed a passage ...
§ 8.630 The one towards the South and the southern parts
Both ...
§ 8.633 ( ...
§ 8.640 And eat them easily, after dropping them to the ground. ...
§ 8.648 ( ...
§ 8.653 ( ...
§ 8.660 With everything behind you being towards the west,
Note ...
§ 8.670 You are fully informed about the places on the right side of ...
§ 8.680 Both of them bind close together the ...
§ 8.685 ( ...
§ 8.690 The ...
§ 8.700 But it just happens to start with the syllable ga. ...
§ 8.707 ( ...
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§ 8.726 ( ...
§ 8.733 ( ...
§ 8.740 Both ...
§ 8.751 ( ...
§ 8.759 (TE2.222) CONCERNING THE AGATHYRSI ...
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§ 8.820 Whereas the chest of favours was empty.
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§ 8.830 And countless other notable men.
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§ 9.001 BOOK 9, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER
Himself was at ...
§ 9.10 Having accepted that most readily Caesar
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§ 9.20 Everyone was astonished and listened with uttermost silence.
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§ 9.40 Of her picture left his wife
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§ 9.140 And, stretching it across the whole surface of the rod, ...
§ 9.150 Then, the recipient, having received the rod and the skin,
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§ 9.160 I only wonder how it could be that such a man,
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§ 9.190 And constrained by sickness, called to ...
§ 9.200 So he brought her the ...
§ 9.210 “The voice is ...
§ 9.216 ( ...
§ 9.220 ( ...
§ 9.230 His son-in-law, and also ...
§ 9.240 But Aristagoras wore ...
§ 9.249 (TE2.263) CONCERNING “BE LIKE SNAKES”, ...
§ 9.260 “Be as pure as doves for my sake”
And again he ...
§ 9.270 And their head, that is to say, our faith.
While I say ...
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§ 9.290 I took a very large quarto to write in
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§ 9.330 And also diggers, cloistered ones, one who drags beasts, and ...
§ 9.333 ( ...
§ 9.338 (TE2.269) CONCERNING “DON’T RECEIVE IT, ...
§ 9.344 (TE2.270) CONCERNING A QUOTE FROM HESIOD, ...
§ 9.355 ( ...
§ 9.370 Then the same is said of men who write metaphrases of books, ...
§ 9.380 ( ...
§ 9.385 (TE2.273) CONCERNING IXION’S WHEEL
§ 9.400 Who had sex with the ...
§ 9.410 The rest of the story has gone by, ...
§ 9.420 Then some farmers saw them, and were amazed.
(For at ...
§ 9.430 And how could ...
§ 9.440 That you were lying to me and speaking inaccurately. ...
§ 9.450 Nor does the planet ...
§ 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, and married, ...
§ 9.490 Of horses the ...
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§ 9.520 Simmas took her and ...
§ 9.530 And very inventive, and he had her as his counselor and right ...
§ 9.540 First she contrived a most finely-worked dress.
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§ 9.550 First convinced her bed-fellow, the horn-bearer Menoinis
§ 9.560 Then she built fabled ...
§ 9.570 However, according to ...
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§ 9.590 If so, then later on, when ...
§ 9.600 And a river crossing, which caused great wonder.
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§ 9.640 “A cow will cry ...
§ 9.650 Which was bred from the Roman ...
§ 9.656 ( ...
§ 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 ...
§ 9.680 But there are two parts to the saying, first: the particle of ...
§ 9.686 ( ...
§ 9.695 (TE2.280) CONCERNING THESSALIAN TEMPE
§ 9.700 And many other cities does ...
§ 9.710 For most people have been barbarized by schedourgy [writing ...
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§ 9.734 ( ...
§ 9.740 While he was sleeping, before he could go home,
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§ 9.762 (TE2.285) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “SHEPHERD, ...
§ 9.770 If you wish to learn from the genealogy also, learn. ...
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§ 9.831 (TE2.290) CONCERNING THE WORDS ECHPEYKES, ...
§ 9.840 “Let him seek an exchpeyke text and prepare it,
That ...
§ 9.850 Since it kept the board straight,
And the driver from ...
§ 9.860 The seat is called astrabe and selma and sella,
And a ...
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§ 9.880 Originally, I thought I had no need to include the oracle ...
§ 9.890 Nor even twelfth, neither in words nor in numbers.” ...
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§ 9.910 But I, in my elegant and jocular speech,
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§ 10.6 BOOK 10, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER
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§ 10.30 The word ekphylon or ekphyllon can be defined as:
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§ 10.52 ( ...
§ 10.60 And some rhetoric and philosophy from others,
Said in ...
§ 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,
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§ 10.180 Since her name was ...
§ 10.190 “But Pyraichmes ...
§ 10.198 ( ...
§ 10.210 She returned to her brothers’ tent.
All the ...
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§ 10.234 (TE2.319) WHAT ARE, ...
§ 10.240 And says that they used their feet to win the prizes. ...
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§ 10.340 “So were your blood stained strings, ...
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§ 10.360 Yet others say there were seven cities given to him, ...
§ 10.370 Many others mention, as does ...
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§ 10.400 Cadmus was to ...
§ 10.410 Later on, by famous ...
§ 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 ...
§ 10.450 Say: O credulous ones, ...
§ 10.460 Lest he fill up the scrolls with extraneous detail. ...
§ 10.470 And even before ...
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§ 10.500 That we call fire pyr, after its discoverer,
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§ 10.543 (TE2.340) CONCERNING THE WORD ANXINOUS. ...
§ 10.550 Instead of saying logismon (capacity of reasoning), we often ...
§ 10.556 (TE2.341) TZETZES’ POVERTY, ...
§ 10.570 Because in the darkness and smoke of life
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§ 10.631 (TE2.347) CONCERNING CATO THE ROMAN
§ 10.640 So Cato asked ...
§ 10.650 So they sent emissaries and boxes of gold to him.
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§ 10.660 And said: “Cato, ...
§ 10.670 Do you think he needs money and possessions?”
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§ 10.700 So Leonidas went ...
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§ 10.720 Such as the sons of ...
§ 10.728 ( ...
§ 10.740 So far-seeing men were called ‘eyes’,
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§ 10.748 (TE2.351) CONCERNING NECTAR ...
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§ 10.766 (TE2.353) WHO ENGLOTOGASTOR, NOSOGASTOR, ...
§ 10.780 I count writers with this sort.
We call anyone of ...
§ 10.786 (TE2.354) CONCERNING THE SILVER MUSE
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§ 10.800 So that no one should have to buy ...
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§ 10.839 Philoxenus then, ...
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§ 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 ...
§ 10.886 (TE2.360) HOW THE AEGINETANS, ...
§ 10.900 Who its inhabitants were and what were their customs. ...
§ 10.910 The ...
§ 10.920 That is murder and slaying which they practised.
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§ 10.930 Odysseus gave the ...
§ 10.940 So when the ...
§ 10.950 Whom Pericles had ...
§ 10.960 Pericles had as his ...
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§ 10.990 With no rest, it whirls terribly,
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§ 11.11 CHILIADES BOOK 11, ...
§ 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 ...
§ 11.48 (TE2.365) HISTORICAL DICTION, ...
§ 11.60 Smooth are those possessing fleshless rumps.
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§ 11.80 Then, being hated by them, was set ablaze with firewood,
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§ 11.109 (TE2.369) HISTORY, WHICH SAID, ...
§ 11.120 Made the twelve into fourteen,
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§ 11.130 The book of pre-exercises does list these.
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§ 11.140 You heard about the fable, how does this need writing?
§ 11.150 Clarity, grandeur, beauty and rapidity
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§ 11.160 Clear, magnificent, brief and plausible,
And that ...
§ 11.170 And with testimony of the ancients, and brief epilogue.
§ 11.180 The unclarity, the impossibility and the forcelessness, with ...
§ 11.190 The book of the sophist-rhetors, as we have said,
Is a ...
§ 11.200 Letter and spirit of the law, and also inference, ...
§ 11.210 From supposition and from superfluity,
Out of season, ...
§ 11.217 Tzetzes the ...
§ 11.230 This unrhetoricked ...
§ 11.240 Do not mean, as you say just now, “what has been done ...
§ 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,
It ...
§ 11.280 The third section thereof is about inventions.
It ...
§ 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,
And he brings ...
§ 11.320 That there are the remaining four thereof
The beauty, ...
§ 11.330 Along with them, the fifth is strength, the sixth is ...
§ 11.340 Word order and cadence, and with them the rhythm too. ...
§ 11.350 In the booklet regarding method of force,
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§ 11.400 The precise number of those wounded, I do not know
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§ 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.
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§ 11.498 (TE2.376) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS, ...
§ 11.510 Since it is impossible to descend there,
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§ 11.610 And the light mantlets, called tortoises,
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§ 11.620 And how the caissons and what their positioning ...
§ 11.630 Both the shapes of paintings and of statues alike. ...
§ 11.640 For the height is wont to capture the perception.
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§ 11.660 And indeed he wrote panegyric words and still others, ...
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§ 11.710 Surely leads to anywhere created remembrance of his words, ...
§ 11.719 (TE2.385) PRAISE FOR A FLY OR FLEA
§ 11.730 Most say that Plato ...
§ 11.744 Many have written such encomia and reproaches.
As ...
§ 11.750 And others wrote encomia and reproaches of various things. ...
§ 11.760 He called it the ...
§ 11.770 While the true and strong needs no ornamentation. ...
§ 11.780 “This Ajax is ...
§ 11.790 Fell thick like hail.
“Sharp and bright, his shield ...
§ 11.805 To praise such things - fleas, baldness, flies,
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§ 11.820 And rhetors of eulogies on forms of problems
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§ 11.920 While I have translated them, to say later.
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§ 11.940 Indeed I said in my paraphrasis of Thracia.
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§ 11.960 Of ...
§ 11.970 Allyda and Prepenesus, and ...
§ 11.980 And thus he says, and such things he writes here.
In ...
§ 11.997 From my iambic verses you had heard,
The races of ...
§ 11.1000 Leave aside the young Geographer [Dionysius the Periegete, ...
§ 12.5 BOOK 12, ( ...
§ 12.10 Please let none of the blemish-spotters indict me.
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§ 12.60 Conjoined together in one body first appeared -
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§ 12.90 Either Palamedes or ...
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§ 12.110 In any case let the oracle show how much the lie. ...
§ 12.120 All those talking about the originators of the letters
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§ 12.150 Commands you to sing appropriately of the moon's naming
§ 12.160 “Therein he wrought the earth, therein the heavens therein ...
§ 12.170 And the charming ...
§ 12.180 A hundred years earlier than the ...
§ 12.190 That he lived a bit earlier than the war of ...
§ 12.200 Thus much was he posterior to ...
§ 12.210 By that much then is ...
§ 12.216 He was the best of the astrologers
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§ 12.226 Some wise men made a proverb out of it,
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§ 12.240 When asked by the children who study with them
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§ 12.252 But I now have written on ...
§ 12.264 The Greeks, in what I wrote, and the ...
§ 12.269 I find myself in a tight spot,
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§ 12.400 And fell into the sea and died
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§ 12.410 They said that ...
§ 12.420 With which he laboriously earned his trophies.
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§ 12.430 And he fell down under due to cruel mishaps.
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§ 12.460 But he shows this to be empty chatter.
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§ 12.638 (TE2.434) WHO ARE THE ASCLEPIADAE, ...
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§ 12.651 Aristophanes who ...
§ 12.660 And he wrote on peace and many other things, ...
§ 12.670 Longing to find a way to make peace. And since this was not ...
§ 12.680 “Watch out, man”, he shouts, “dig, hide them”
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§ 12.690 Supposedly to juxtapose ...
§ 12.703 (TE2.437) ON DAEDALUSES AND ICARUSES
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§ 12.720 As soon as their shell cracks
The beast judges the ...
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§ 12.740 You now know of vultures, the female conceiving wind-eggs. ...
§ 12.743 ( ...
§ 12.750 As the thunder gives out an intense smell like sulphur's. ...
§ 12.760 And I neither could see anything in my right.
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§ 12.770 Thus the smell of thunders I bitterly have known. ...
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§ 12.830 Megaera was ...
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§ 12.859 (TE2.449) PROVERB “BUT, ...
§ 12.870 Daemon for some means the expert
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§ 12.880 Also the women of the ...
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§ 12.920 And the land of the ...
§ 12.930 They counter-attacked hurling javelins
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§ 12.940 And she, while trying to gather them all, was thus defeated. ...
§ 12.949 (TE2.454) THE MARVEL OF THE MYSIANS, ...
§ 12.953 (TE2.455) AND ARTEMISIA OF CARIA, ...
§ 12.960 But Xerxes thought ...
§ 12.968 (TE2.456) CONCERNING GENDER INNOVATION, ...
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§ 12.980 I suffer, so I will recount what he himelf said. ...
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§ 12.997 13.1 BOOK 13 [12.1000]
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§ 13.190 They gave them barley to eat, and observed
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§ 13.200 Then they studied, for instance in case of war ...
§ 13.210 These are omens in the strict sense
Hence all types ...
§ 13.220 “O Brother of me that am a ...
§ 13.226 (TE2.475) CONCERNING COLLECTORS ...
§ 13.240 One or the other in the crowd would offer them something, ...
§ 13.250 With songs, refrains and laudatory speeches
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§ 13.260 Rigged a statuette of their goddess ...
§ 13.270 Who will not be the first to bring pulse and grain
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§ 13.274 (TE2.476) CONCERNING CHORDEVEIN, ...
§ 13.280 Bones and something else, like slaughter-house blood. ...
§ 13.283 ( ...
§ 13.287 (TE2.478) SAYING HOW TO MAKE OUR OWN, ...
§ 13.295 (TE2.479) CONCERNING TRISALITROS, ...
§ 13.310 Thus for ...
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§ 13.330 Hence any food loaded with dressings and sauces
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§ 13.339 (TE2.481) CONCERNING CATHARMA, POISON, ...
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§ 13.360 But their tongues were mingled and they were a folk summoned ...
§ 13.370 (TE2.484) PROVERB SAYING “COME INDEED, ...
§ 13.380 He threw it in the fire and told it:
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§ 13.410 Cut up his meat with his own hand
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§ 13.413 ( ...
§ 13.420 Ethmos, sakelisterion, trygoipos, ulister
Are common ...
§ 13.430 Sakellisai can be safely used to mean both
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§ 13.436 (TE2.488) PROVERB, ...
§ 13.441 ( ...
§ 13.460 Some illiterate brute, to whom he had done no harm, ...
§ 13.470 A bystanders nodded and signalled him
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§ 13.480 And did everything else just as I said about ostraka ...
§ 13.487 Famousa, I think, means for the law-writers
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§ 13.510 And the dry wood stands for us all.
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§ 13.522 (TE2.492) HISTORICAL WORD, ...
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§ 13.550 And wrote manifest instead of most unseen, as I think ...
§ 13.561 ABOUT IOULOS (AND ALL IT MEANS. AND ABOUT OULOS (494) ...
§ 13.572 (TE2.495 E107) PROVERB, ...
§ 13.580 A goodly sapling and a fair-growing; and the blasts ...
§ 13.586 (TE2.496 E107) HISTORICAL WORD, ...
§ 13.600 the son of ...
§ 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.