Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

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§ 2.843 ( T54 ) CONCERNING EURYDICE Eurydice...
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§ 2.850 Was delighted by Orpheus...
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§ 2.860 “If he should wish to know, he will learn both as many Secret things as men contrive in their breasts,...
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§ 2.868 ( T55 CONCERNING THALES,...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:2.880
§ 2.880 Wherefore some even called those people “before the Moon...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:2.888
§ 2.888 [T56] Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus...
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§ 2.892 [T57] Clazomenian...
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§ 2.898 [T58] And Empedocles...
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§ 2.910 And again, if you should wish, you will bring in avenging blows,...
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§ 2.920 ( T59 ) CONCERNING LAIUS Laius...
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§ 2.925 ( T60 ) CONCERNING APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Apollonius...
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§ 2.930 Apollonius drove out of Byzantium...
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§ 2.940 As this is happening, destruction falls on the barbarians,...
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§ 2.950 This man spoke in advance also of an earthquake for the city of Antioch...
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§ 2.960 Apollonius was thrown in prison,...
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§ 2.970 I know countless things of this man Apollonius...
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§ 2.980 ( T61 ) CONCERNING DEMOCRITUS Abderan Democritus...
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§ 2.990 Since he knew such a wise man on account of them....
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§ 3.1 CHILIADES BOOK 3, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ ( T62...
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§ 3.12 ( T63 ) CONCERNING ERICHTHONIUS Let Homer...
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§ 3.21 ( T64 ) CONCERNING JOB Job...
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§ 3.30 ( T65 ) CONCERNING PYTHIUS THE LYDIAN You also have the entire story of Pythius...
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§ 3.39 ( T66 ) CONCERNING HERACLIUS Chosroes...
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§ 3.50 With firebrands always succeeding that illumination,...
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§ 3.60 Old contemporary Syracusan...
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§ 3.65 ( T67 ) CONCERNING PTOLEMY The Chian...
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§ 3.70 “He rules over many lands, and many seas....
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§ 3.76 ( T68 ) CONCERNING GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Gaius Julius Caesar...
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§ 3.83 ( T69 ) CONCERNING SESOSTRIS That Sesostris...
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§ 3.90 Using riddles to show by example the lack of cohesion in fortune....
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§ 3.100 And Callisthenes with them,...
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§ 3.102 ( T70 ) CONCERNING CATO Drawing his roots from Italian...
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§ 3.110 Cato was his son’s teacher in subjects Greek and Roman,...
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§ 3.120 Of exercises, horsemanship, and every type of armed fighting....
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§ 3.130 In this way Cato was rearing his son decently in all things,...
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§ 3.140 He made victory doubtful for the Romans;...
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§ 3.150 Was a brother of Capito...
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§ 3.160 Used to lift me up and push me forward more Than a month’s time of the other teachers;...
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§ 3.170 But if anyone even wants to understand what sort of man Cato...
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§ 3.180 This dryness had met with both of us because of a lack of washing;...
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§ 3.190 To not be overpowered by money, and I am attended by a fire breathing spirit For just things,...
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§ 3.200 And I will deliver the fatherland of cruel tyrants.” Even for me there is some such a spirit for just things,...
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§ 3.210 And at the Cretan...
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§ 3.220 Who, being blind like Aman, makes all things blind....
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§ 3.232 ( T71-T73 )CONCERNING CATO,...
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§ 3.233 [T72] Solon,...
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§ 3.236 [T73] Now the physician Theodorus...
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§ 3.242 ( T74 ) CONCERNING HECUBA The story of Hecuba...
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§ 3.249 ( T75 ) CONCERNING POLYMESTOR Polymestor...
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§ 3.260 ( T76 ) CONCERNING AJAX THE SON OF TELAMON Ajax...
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§ 3.270 Ajax himself becomes murderer for himself....
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§ 3.272 ( T77-T88 CONCERNING AGAMEMNON,...
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§ 3.278 Agamemnon turned out as king of all Greeks....
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§ 3.280 [T78] And Diomedes...
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§ 3.291 [T79] Idomeneus,...
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§ 3.299 [T80] I pass in silence over Amphiaraus...
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§ 3.310 [T82] I omit Aegeus...
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§ 3.313 ( T83 and T84 ) CONCERNING THE CAPTIVITY OF THE CHILDREN OF CLEOPATRA AND THE SON OF PERSEUS I omit describing the children of Cleopatra...
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§ 3.316 ( T85 ) CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF MAURICE,...
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§ 3.320 [T86] I omit telling how Phocas...
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§ 3.322 [T87] Gelimer was a king of the Mauretanian nations,...
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§ 3.330 The former, so that I can represent in tragedy my heavy misfortune,...
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§ 3.339 CONCERNING BELISARIUS THE GENERAL ( T88...
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§ 3.349 CONCERNING DARIUS WHOM ALEXANDER DEFEATED,...
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§ 3.360 Then shutting him in a small, very narrow hut,...
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§ 3.370 By the Romans, were trying to hand over the city into slavery....
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§ 3.380 From the beneficiaries, Xanthippus...
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§ 3.388 ( T92 ) CONCERNING THE WOODEN CORPSE The prose writer Herodotus...
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§ 3.390 A household slave, bringing around a wooden corpse at the meals,...
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§ 3.393 ( T93 ) CONCERNING THE DRUNKENNESS OF THE LACONIAN HOUSEHOLD SLAVES The Laconians...
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§ 3.339 ( T94 ) CONCERNING DARIUS THE FATHER OF XERXES In a loose manner,...
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§ 3.411 ( T95 ) CONCERNING BELESYS THE BABYLONIAN AND ARSACES THE MEDE AND THE TAKING DOWN OF SARDANAPALUS THE ASSYRIAN Belesys...
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§ 3.420 And wearing the clothing that women also wear,...
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§ 3.430 And in the first assault, they were defeated immediately;...
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§ 3.440 Belesys,—receiving the ashes to the disadvantage of Arsaces...
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§ 3.450 Diodorus Siculus even writes the epigram of Sardanapalus...
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§ 3.458 ( T96 ) CONCERNING HISTIAEUS THE MILESIAN This Histiaeus...
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§ 3.470 When, therefore, Darius...
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§ 3.480 But Darius himself,...
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§ 3.490 But Histiaeus,...
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§ 3.500 Wherefore Darius gives gifts to the men: Coes...
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§ 3.510 And brings him away with him to the land of Susa...
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§ 3.520 Learning of this, Darius...
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§ 3.530 Having caused more confusion to the cities that were never at rest,...
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§ 3.540 At last, having cried excessively, Darius...
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§ 3.544 ( T97 ) CONCERNING DEMOCEDES THE PHYSICIAN OF CROTON Democedes...
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§ 3.550 Once Darius suffered a rupture while hunting,...
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§ 3.561 ( T98 ) CONCERNING CYRUS THE SON OF MANDANE AND CAMBYSES Persian...
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§ 3.570 (For reasons which I spoke of previously),...
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§ 3.580 For to begin with, to Cyaxares...
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§ 3.590 Enough to satisfy the most insatiable soul,...
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§ 3.600 But some Mede, a lover of music, upon hearing this,...
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§ 3.610 “By Zeus,” Cyrus...
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§ 3.620 And Gadatas (another young man in the prime of life,...
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§ 3.630 Cyrus spoke to Croesus...
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§ 3.640 And why do I say to you that Cyrus...
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§ 3.648 ( T99 ) CONCERNING ABRADATAS THE GENERAL AND KING OF THE SUSANS Abradatas...
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§ 3.660 As Araspas was about to be dead from shame;...
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§ 3.670 In the exact word, becomes numbered among the spies,...
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§ 3.680 To Abradatas,...

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