Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.520
§ 4.520 And, by both dying and living, Castor...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.530
§ 4.530 Who with only the heated exhalations of bread,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.540
§ 4.540 Filling a whole artabas full of golden coins....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.550
§ 4.550 Four hundred myriads minus seven thousand....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.560
§ 4.560 Judge us unworthy of a written greeting,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.570
§ 4.570 For when my fifteenth year was running near,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.580
§ 4.580 Hecuba, Polymestor...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.590
§ 4.590 But by day was the teacher of lessons With moderate blows,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.600
§ 4.600 But I am distressed as I look down upon you harming yourself exceedingly....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.610
§ 4.610 But after an investigation, he makes Syloson...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.620
§ 4.620 Osymandyas,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.630
§ 4.630 But when Artybius...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.640
§ 4.640 And, I was telling, in turn, for Arion...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.650
§ 4.650 Only his dog, being more loyal than all,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.660
§ 4.660 Now being with him at the inn, the dog...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.670
§ 4.670 I skip over the dogs...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.680
§ 4.680 Some boy in Patrae...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.691
§ 4.691 There was previously, a fig-tree beside us,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.700
§ 4.700 It split apart the next day, from crown to root,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.708
§ 4.708 Now for the Illyrians...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.711
§ 4.711 And why do I teach you about these small and narrow things? Also magnetite,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.720
§ 4.720 So lest you seem to me more lacking in affection than even these,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.730
§ 4.730 Timotheus,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.740
§ 4.740 Tullius Servius,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.750
§ 4.750 Why do I chat to you about the majority of things,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.760
§ 4.760 Who previously led into slavery the entire land of the barbarians? And where is good Scipio...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.770
§ 4.770 And neither to exult in the cold vanities of life,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.781
§ 4.781 OF THE SAME JOHN TZETZES, OTHER STORIES AND HISTORICAL WORDS OF THIS LETTER Stories (of other letters of ours,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.784
§ 4.784 ( TE1.1 E1 ) [from letter 1] HISTORICAL WORD A: CONCERNING EPIPHYLLIS Epiphyllis (On-a-leaf) is a very small cluster That is able to conceal itself on a chance leaf....
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§ 4.786 ( TE1.2 ) CONCERNING BEKESELENOI The Bekeselenoi being one history Two exist and learn for me subtly and precisely....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.800
§ 4.800 When the bodyguards of the king came,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.810
§ 4.810 Some say, as I was saying, that the races of the Arcadians...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.821
§ 4.821 You have the whole story of the Bekeselenoi people,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.833
§ 4.833 ( TE1.3 ) CONCERNING THE BLITOMAMMAN Previously,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.836
§ 4.836 ( TE1.4 ) CONCERNING MELITIDES AND OTHER FOOLS The fools of old were countless in number,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.850
§ 4.850 Just as the son of the Country-folk,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.860
§ 4.860 He being loud-voiced even for a barbarian,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.872
§ 4.872 ( TE1.5 ) CONCERNING MAMMAKYTHOS Mammakythos (blockhead) means the same as blitomamman,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.875
§ 4.875 ( TE1.6 ) CONCERNING ACCO Acco was a foolish woman who,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.887
§ 4.887 ( TE1.7 ) CONCERNING GRY Gry is the dirt of the fingernail and the voice of the pig...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.892
§ 4.892 ( TE1.8 ) CONCERNING THE COMPANIONSHIP OF PIRITHOUS WITH THESEUS Ixion...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.900
§ 4.900 They throw their arms around one another and become among those who are most friendly,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.910
§ 4.910 And Hades has power over the Molossians...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.920
§ 4.920 Is another allegory, and I said it is in Hesiod...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.924
§ 4.924 ( TE1.9 ) CONCERNING THE SENDING AWAY OF ANACHARSIS,...
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§ 4.933 [TE1.10] Topos 10 in this series is missing.]
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§ 4.933 ( TE1.11 ) CONCERNING THE CUMAEAN ASS In Cumae...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.940
§ 4.940 And that, as a bride sitting in her bridal chamber,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.950
§ 4.950 (Now this Piraeus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.960
§ 4.960 ( TE1.12 ) CONCERNING THE COVERT BOW-SHOOTING OF PARIS Paris Alexander...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.965
§ 4.965 ( TE1.13 ) CONCERNING RHESUS,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.970
§ 4.970 “Not one man, good in soul, deems it worthy,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.972
§ 4.972 ( TE1.14 ) CONCERNING “FOR I HAVE NOT SHIVERED AT COMBAT NOR AT THE DIN OF HORSES” Homer...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.980
§ 4.980 Until: “For I have not shivered at combat,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.982
§ 4.982 ( TE1.15 ) CONCERNING “FOR I WISH NOT TO BE SUPPOSED BEST,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.990
§ 4.990 As one man will be marshalled against the so-and-so of the Argives...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.996
§ 4.996 ( TE1.16 ) CONCERNING ACHILLES AMONG THE VIRGIN DAUGHTERS OF LYCOMEDES The more recent of the race of poets form these things,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:4.1002
§ 4.1002 [5.1] And sending him to the virgin daughter of Lycomedes...
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§ 5.9 CHILIADES BOOK 5, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS CONCERNING THE SHOUT OF THE TROJANS AND THE SILENCE OF THE GREEKS ( TE1.17...
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§ 5.17 ( TE1.18 ) CONCERNING THE VERSE: “BUT I COMMAND YOU TO LEAVE AND GO BACK TO THE CROWD” Thus spoke Achilles...
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§ 5.24 ( TE1.19 ) CONCERNING THE PHRASE: “BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE UNFORTUNATE ONES” And Homer...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.40
§ 5.40 Learn the allegory behind this -for who will leave without benefit from one of Tzetzes...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.50
§ 5.50 In the end, Lycurgus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.60
§ 5.60 In no way would I desire a fight against such a man.” Lycurgus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.69
§ 5.69 ( TE1.20 ) CONCERNING THE MOLIONIDS The Molionids...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.80
§ 5.80 They even scorned their own mother, who told them: “You have not yet crossed paths with a man of the Melampygoi (black-bottoms).” So,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.90
§ 5.90 They saw Heracles...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.100
§ 5.100 ( TE1.21 ) CONCERNING CACUS This man,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.111
§ 5.111 ( TE1.22 ) CONCERNING THE CENTAUR ASBOLUS Heracles...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.120
§ 5.120 The smell from the wine spread through the air,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.130
§ 5.130 For this man, Heracles...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.138
§ 5.138 ( TE1.23 ) CONCERNING ONE OF DIONYSIUS’ VERSES: “EVEN THE STUPIDEST OF MEN MOCK THEM” This man,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.150
§ 5.150 And so the former sold him. But this one is also false;...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.160
§ 5.160 Dionysius had written a tragic play Which was to be celebrated on the Athenian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.170
§ 5.170 And gave them his own scripts to correct Not sell them as slaves,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.186
§ 5.186 So now you are holding the historiai of the first letter;...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.200
§ 5.200 The ones some plundered from the palaces,...
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§ 5.203 CONCERNING ATLAS: THE FIRST Story ( TE2.1 E2...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.210
§ 5.210 And then again in the Indian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.220
§ 5.220 And Bousiris to guard the land of Phoenice...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.230
§ 5.230 And, so, he fled from the land of Egypt...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.240
§ 5.240 But Hermes stole it and returned it to Zeus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.250
§ 5.250 Caused this confusions of terms in times ancient Had it not been for the fire and light of Hermes...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.260
§ 5.260 And against Bousiris...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.270
§ 5.270 Its very creator. That’s why they say that Atlas...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.280
§ 5.280 Namely forty six generations And from Heracles...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.290
§ 5.290 ( TE2.2 ) CONCERNING THE SAYING ABOUT THE “WELL-MASKED PRETEXT” Know that these phrases are of exotic nature And they have a feeling of decency and grandeur as well And make speech seem of more elevated style....
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§ 5.300 “Use no alluring pretext against me”....
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§ 5.309 ( TE2.3 ) CONCERNING AUTOMATIC AND IN THE MANNER OF THE HOMERIC MENELAUS Homer...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.317
§ 5.317 ( TE2.4 ) CONCERNING THE LACONIC BREVITY OF SPEECH It is Homer...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.330
§ 5.330 We will put together an army, prepare the cavalry And cross the river Evrotas with ease....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.338
§ 5.338 ( TE2.5 ) CONCERNING SOLON,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.350
§ 5.350 Seven years after Draco...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.360
§ 5.360 And leave his legislation to be tested,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.370
§ 5.370 Solon began to weep and tear his hair off But Thales...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.380
§ 5.380 But when Solon did not at all praise him as a happy man,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.387
§ 5.387 ( TE2.6 ) CONCERNING THE BIRD PHOENIX The Phoenix...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.399
§ 5.399 ( TE2.7 ) CONCERNING THE UNICORN The unicorn is a scent loving animal And has a horn on its forehead....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.412
§ 5.412 ( TE2.8 ) CONCERNING THE BIRDS THAT ARE ALSO CALLED HARPIES Ictinus is a type of bird that we also call Harpy...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.422
§ 5.422 ( TE2.9 ) CONCERNING HOW LIONS NEVER TOUCH A CORPSE Lions are predators and,...
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