Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

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§ 9.530 And very inventive, and he had her as his counselor and right hand,...
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§ 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 To give her to him as a gift....
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§ 9.560 Then she built fabled Babylon...
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§ 9.570 However, according to Cleitarchus...
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§ 9.580 At least as far as Babylon...
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§ 9.590 If so, then later on, when Cleitarchus...
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§ 9.600 And a river crossing, which caused great wonder....
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§ 9.605 ( TE2.276 ) CONCERNING WHY SPARTA WAS UNWALLED The ancient Spartans...
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§ 9.615 ( TE2.277 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “A COW WILL CRY AND A BULL WILL MOURN” There is a phrase commonly used by Constantinopolitans,...
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§ 9.630 But next to the bull...
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§ 9.640 “A cow will cry and a bull...
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§ 9.650 Which was bred from the Roman Italian...
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§ 9.656 ( TE2.278 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “WOE TO YOU,...
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§ 9.662 For one of the wise might have spoken to us,...
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§ 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,...
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§ 9.680 But there are two parts to the saying,...
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§ 9.686 ( TE2.279 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “ALWAYS OF VERY WARLIKE MEN THE WITS ARE WANDERING” Generally,...
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§ 9.695 ( TE2.280 ) CONCERNING THESSALIAN TEMPE It is Thessaly...
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§ 9.700 And many other cities does Thessaly...
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§ 9.710 For most people have been barbarized by schedourgy [writing schedia],...
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§ 9.715 ( TE2.281 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “SOLDIER ON,...
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§ 9.726 ( TE2.282 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HE WHO DOES NOT THINK FOR HIMSELF,...
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§ 9.734 ( TE2.283 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “GET THEE SWIFTLY AWAY FROM MY ISLAND,...
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§ 9.740 While he was sleeping, before he could go home,...
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§ 9.751 ( TE2.284 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HE WHO LEAVES THE PREPARED THINGS TO CHASE THE UNPREPARED IS A FOOL” Who coined this phrase,...
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§ 9.762 ( TE2.285 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “SHEPHERD,...
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§ 9.770 If you wish to learn from the genealogy also,...
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§ 9.780 On whom Isaac fathered Esau...
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§ 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,...
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§ 9.803 ( TE2.287 ) CONCERNING THE SAYING OF THE ORACLE OF BACIS “O IDLE ONES,...
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§ 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...
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§ 9.820 This is answer of the Sibyl...
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§ 9.827 ( TE2.289 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “A GIFT IN RETURN,...
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§ 9.831 ( TE2.290 ) CONCERNING THE WORDS ECHPEYKES,...
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§ 9.840 “Let him seek an exchpeyke text and prepare it,...
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§ 9.850 Since it kept the board straight, And the driver from falling off....
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§ 9.860 The seat is called astrabe and selma and sella,...
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§ 9.864 ( TE2.291 ) CONCERNING THE ORACLE REGARDING “THESSALIAN HORSES”,...
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§ 9.880 Originally, I thought I had no need to include the oracle here,...
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§ 9.890 Nor even twelfth, neither in words nor in numbers.” What I have just said is exactly what the oracle did,...
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§ 9.895 ( TE2.292 ) CONCERNING THE CYRENEAN SILPHIUM The story of Cyrenean...
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§ 9.900 ( TE2.293 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “QUICKER AND FASTER THAN CELER” The Romans call fast people celeres,...
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§ 9.910 But I, in my elegant and jocular speech,...
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§ 9.913 ( TE2.294 ) CONCERNING IPHICLUS Iphiclus...
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§ 9.919 ( TE2.295 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “CLEVER ODYSSEUS AND NESTOR” Homer...
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§ 9.934 ( TE2.296 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “HAS A BETTER MEMORY THAN BOTH ISOCRATES THE ORATOR AND DEMETRIUS OF PHALERUM” Isocrates...
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§ 9.943 ( TE2.297 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “MOMOS SEE ALL BUT HIMSELF” The storytellers say that the Momos and the Lamia...
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§ 9.953 ( TE2.298 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “OUR WHALES”,...
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§ 9.960 In my commentary on Lycophron...
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§ 9.967 ( TE2.299 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “YOU THOUGHT YOUR WISE MEN WERE TELEPHUSES” This buffalo-priest,...
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§ 9.980 Which Aeschylus attacks as rotten....
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§ 9.988 ( TE2.300 ) CONCERNING THE STREAMS OF THE NILE The Egyptian...
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§ 9.997 ( TE2.301 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “THE CHATTERING LANGUAGE OF CICADAS AND ATTIC” Cicadas are chattering creatures,...
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§ 10.6 BOOK 10, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER ( TE2.302...
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§ 10.13 ( TE2.303 ) PROVERB SAYING THE UNMENTIONABLE,...
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§ 10.20 And no longer counted that day with the other days....
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§ 10.30 The word ekphylon or ekphyllon can be defined as: Of another nation,...
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§ 10.41 ( TE2.304 ) CONCERNING THE TYPHONIAN BREATH Hundred-headed Typhon...
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§ 10.44 ( TE2.305 ) CONCERNING THE WORDS EPISKYNION AND EMBRONTETOS The episkynion is the place of the eyebrows,...
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§ 10.52 ( TE2.306 ) CONCERNING THE HEIFER AND BASHAAN The psalmist says this about Herodias...
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§ 10.60 And some rhetoric and philosophy from others,...
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§ 10.70 Wrote most skilfully, not omitting even punctuation mark....
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§ 10.80 So large the pig among them, so much the pig-filth,...
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§ 10.90 I have read her two little books in verse,...
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§ 10.102 ( TE2.307 ) CONCERNING: “HOWLING LIONS,...
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§ 10.111 ( TE2.308 ) CONCERNING: “ON WHICH MAY NO DEW FALL,...
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§ 10.117 ( TE2.309 ) CONCERNING DATHAN AND ABIRAM Dathan,...
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§ 10.126 ( TE2.310 ) CONCERNING: “DON’T SAY: ‘OVERLOOK THIS SIN OF THEIRS’” The holy words of the Evangelists teach us,...
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§ 10.131 ( TE2.311 ) CONCERNING: “BUT I PRAY TO THE AVENGING SPIRITS” I pray those prayers against whom I have cursed,...
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§ 10.134 ( TE2.312 ) CONCERNING: “NAKED CAME I OUT OF MY MOTHER’S WOMB” The famous Job...
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§ 10.143 ( TE2.313 ) CONCERNING: “BETTER DAYS,...
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§ 10.150 ( TE2.314 ) CONCERNING: “LEAVING THE UNDERWORLD OF THE DEAD AND THE GATES OF DARKNESS” Polydorus...
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§ 10.160 This story has been told in Euripides...
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§ 10.165 ( TE2.315 ) CONCERNING: “ARE THERE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT?” When much of the Hebrew people died in the desert,...
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§ 10.174 ( TE2.316 ) CONCERNING: “YOU RAN OUT BY THE BORDERS OF THESSALONICA AND THE PAEONIANS” What is now the glorious city of Thessalonica...
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§ 10.180 Since her name was Thessalonice...
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§ 10.190 “But Pyraichmes led the crook-bowed Paeonians...
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§ 10.198 ( TE2.317 ) CONCERNING HERODOTUS LISTENING TO ENCOMIUMS Herodotus...
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§ 10.210 She returned to her brothers’ tent. All the Persians...
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§ 10.216 ( TE2.318 ) CONCERNING THE PYGOSTOLOS PAEONIAN WOMEN Hesiod...
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§ 10.234 ( TE2.319 ) WHAT ARE,...
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§ 10.240 And says that they used their feet to win the prizes....
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§ 10.250 ( TE2.320 ) CONCERNING THE BONES WHICH EZEKIEL SAW Long ago,...
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§ 10.261 ( TE2.321 ) CONCERNING THE CUMAEAN LION An ass...
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§ 10.264 ( TE2.322 ) CONCERNING THE JOURNEYS OF ALEXANDER AND LYSIPPOS’ STATUE The story lies in a letter,...
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§ 10.275 ( TE2.323 ) CONCERNING THE NONSENSE THAT THE STATUE OF TIME IS A STATUE OF LIFE AND NOT OF TIME Very learned men,...
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§ 10.289 And Demosthenes calls him somewhere deaf and bald As indeed Lysippos...
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§ 10.295 ( TE2.324 ) CONCERNING: “BUT EVEN GOD CANNOT CHANGE THINGS GONE BY” God is all-powerful,...
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§ 10.300 ( TE2.325 ) CONCERNING: “O PORTION OF THE GOLDEN RACE...
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§ 10.309 ( TE2.326 ) THAT: “THE CORCYRAEAN PHAEACIANS WERE REPORTED TO BE THE GREATEST SAILORS OF ALL MEN” The Corcyraean Phaeacians...
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§ 10.314 ( TE2.327 ) CONCERNING: “OF THE PHAEACIAN WOMEN,...
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§ 10.320 So the Phaeacian women were the greatest of all women In the skill of weaving in the places of weaving....
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§ 10.332 ( TE2.328 ) CONCERNING: “TO OUTDO THE MAEONIAN WOMEN’S WONDER-WORKING DYE” Homer...
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§ 10.340 “So were your blood stained strings,...
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§ 10.347 ( TE2.329 ) “THEY DECORATE ME WITH MILESIAN FLEECES,...
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§ 10.350 So when Themistocles...
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§ 10.360 Yet others say there were seven cities given to him,...
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§ 10.370 Many others mention, as does Aristophanes...
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§ 10.382 ( TE2.330 ) CONCERNING: “AND I BLAME THE ORACLE,...

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