Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

§ 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...

§ 11.366 ( TE2.370 ) CONCERNING THE ATTIC RIVER ILISSUS AND THE HONEY OF HYMETTUS The Ilissos...

§ 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,...

§ 11.456 ( TE2.375 ) CONCERNING LOGICAL OYSTERS AND PEARLS In the Indian...

§ 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,...

§ 11.692 ( TE2.383 ) THE UPBRINGING THAT OF CATO THE ROMAN How Cato...

§ 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...

§ 11.836 ( TE2.387 ) CONCERNING PHIDIAS AND ALCAMENES That regarding Phidias...

§ 11.839 ( TE2.388 ) CONCERNING SILKEN GARMENTS The Seres...

§ 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;...

§ 12.90 Either Palamedes or Phoenix...

§ 12.100 About this Cadmus Tzetzes...

§ 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,...