Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

§ 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,...

§ 12.319 ( TE2.403 ) CONCERNING PIRITHOUS AND THESEUS The full story of Pirithous...

§ 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,...

§ 12.451 ( TE2.411 ) ON PYTHAGORAS' SPENDING FIVE MONTHS WITH PHALARIS Phalaris...

§ 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,...

§ 12.532 ( TE2.422 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “I THINK ABOUT THE SYMMORIA AND THE TRITTYS” Phyle...

§ 12.545 ( TE2.423 ) ON DASHING OUT THE LAST DROPS OF WINE What is propelakismos,...

§ 12.549 ( TE2.424 ) CONCERNING THE STRICT MEANING OF ANEPSIOI In the fiftieth...

§ 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....

§ 12.590 ( TE2.429 ) CONCERNING THE BUST OF HERMES AGORAEUS Hermes...

§ 12.597 ( TE2.430 ) PROVERB “THE AMORGINE STATUE” Amorge is,...

§ 12.606 ( TE2.431 ) CONCERNING WHAT HERMES DEPOSITED IN A MUCH-LOVED CAVE Orpheus...

§ 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...

§ 12.703 ( TE2.437 ) ON DAEDALUSES AND ICARUSES About Daedalus...

§ 12.708 ( TE2.438 ) CONCERNING THE EAGLES' OFFSPRING The young of the eagles...

§ 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,...

§ 12.785 ( TE2.442 ) CONCERNING MOVING EVERY STICK AND STONE After the war against Persians...

§ 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,...

§ 12.812 ( TE2.446 ) CONCERNING MEGAERA AND WHO IS SHE Megaera...

§ 12.814 ( TE2.447 ) CONCERNING VASKANIA,...

§ 12.830 Megaera was called so due to viciously megairein And Alecto...

§ 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...

§ 12.892 ( TE2.451 ) ABOUT THE SACAE AND THE MASSAGETAE WOMEN Now learn that the Sacae...

§ 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,...

§ 12.960 But Xerxes thought the ship was the enemy's And learned that Artemisia...

§ 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....