Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.430
§ 5.430 But I think their issue is that both animals are kings and arrogant as such,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.440
§ 5.440 “As a lion he was pleased leaning over the corpse” Don’t think,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.444
§ 5.444 ( TE2.10 ) CONCERNING THE PUNISHMENT OF TANTALUS Tantalus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.450
§ 5.450 But if Tmolus fathered Tantalus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.460
§ 5.460 For disclosing the mysteries to the uninitiated,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.470
§ 5.470 Others say that an unbridled tongue got him cast out,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.480
§ 5.480 They say was what brought about Tantalus's method of punishment: Cast out by the gods and suspended in the air,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.490
§ 5.490 All laden with fruit. But should he want to drink,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.500
§ 5.500 ( TE2.11 ) CONCERNING WHY EROS HAS A BOW,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.510
§ 5.510 ( TE2.12 ) CONCERNING UNJUST FATE ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS In the book concerning the taking of Jerusalem...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.520
§ 5.520 And Perseus the deer and the bear among others....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.530
§ 5.530 “Do you see how our empress’ beloved Mehlebe suffers?” That cat...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.540
§ 5.540 And enjoys the same food and all the aforementioned....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.545
§ 5.545 ( TE2.13 ) THE OLD WORDS CHEIROMACTRON AND MAGDALIA Cheiromactron is a linen used on the table To clean the hands of dirt....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.550
§ 5.550 ( TE2.14 ) ON THE OLD TRADITION OF THOSE THAT WERE STILL ALIVE TO SAY THREE TIMES OUT LOUD THE NAME OF THE ONE THAT HAD DIED ABROAD,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.555
§ 5.555 ( TE2.15 ) CONCERNING THE OLD ROMAN TRADITION OF NOT GOING TO WARS UNDECLARED BUT ANNOUNCING THEM BEFOREHAND BY THROWING A SPEAR ON THE GROUND AND STARTING THUS THE WAR The Roman and Latin...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.564
§ 5.564 ( TE2.16 ) CONCERNING THE REASONS FOR WHICH THEY ARE CALLED AUSONES AND THEIR LAND’S EXTENT Ausonia takes its name from the Ausonians...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.583
§ 5.583 ( TE2.17 ) CONCERNING HOW JOHN TZETZES IS AN IBERIAN FROM HIS MOTHER’S SIDE BUT PURE GREEK FROM THE SIDE OF HIS FATHER The mother of John Tzetzes...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.590
§ 5.590 Along with lady Mariam the Abasgian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.600
§ 5.600 From one of his respectable wife’s consorts,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.610
§ 5.610 He had three daughters and one of them,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.620
§ 5.620 And the father of this last one was a scion of Byzantium...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.629
§ 5.629 ( TE2.18 ) CONCERNING THE PHAESTIAN EPIMEDES' PROPHECY REGARDING MUNICHIA,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.637
§ 5.637 ( TE2.19 ) CONCERNING CECROPS Cecrops...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.640
§ 5.640 Or as fluent in both the Egyptian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.650
§ 5.650 And for another reason they call Cecrops...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.660
§ 5.660 And gave the city its name after Sais....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.670
§ 5.670 He was Hephaestus’ and Athena...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.682
§ 5.682 ( TE2.20 ) CONCERNING THE FACT THAT LEPREION IS A LOCATION,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.690
§ 5.690 The words that end in –aios follow the ou– declension and always have a diphthong....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.699
§ 5.699 ( TE2.21 ) CONCERNING THE MEANINGS OF THE WORDS TITANUS AND SCIRRUS Sceiron...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.710
§ 5.710 And for those that immerse themselves in books about engineering,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.717
§ 5.717 ( TE2.22 ) CONCERNING THE WORD MORMOLYCEION They say that once upon a time there were three Gorgons...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.726
§ 5.726 ( TE2.23 ) CONCERNING THE WORD CATHARMA Catharma meant the pharmakos in times of old....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.740
§ 5.740 “After he has burnt the branches of the wild trees,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.750
§ 5.750 We should provide him with dry figs and bread And that kind of cheese pharmakoi eat.” From days of yore they are used to waiting their fate with open mouths And they hold branches from trees,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.760
§ 5.760 The second the one who uses drugs for healing;...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.762
§ 5.762 ( TE2.24 ) CONCERNING THE APPLE OF ERIS The ones that have ripped off the Homeric Muse...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.770
§ 5.770 She then threw the apple from a rooftop in the middle of the wedding ceremony Causing great confusion and the destructive war between Greeks and Trojans...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.777
§ 5.777 ( TE2.25 ) CONCERNING THE FACT THAT OSMYLUS IS A KIND OF FISH BUT OSMILUS REFERS TO THE SMELLY MAN Osmylus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.781
§ 5.781 ( TE2.26 ) CONCERNING THE GRAMMARIAN,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.790
§ 5.790 For the Indians...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.796
§ 5.796 ( TE2.27 ) CONCERNING BELESYS THE BABYLONIAN AND ARSACES THE MEDE There was a man with the name of Belesys...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.804
§ 5.804 ( TE2.28 ) CONCERNING PALAMEDES,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.820
§ 5.820 Wake up in the early morning and go visit holy Pythia...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.829
§ 5.829 ( TE2.29 E6 ) CONCERNING SISYPHUS THE COAN Sisyphus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.834
§ 5.834 ( TE2.30 E6 ) CONCERNING DICTYS THE CRETAN The same chronicler writes that Dictys...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.837
§ 5.837 ( TE2.31 E6 ) CONCERNING TEUCRUS,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.850
§ 5.850 But the giver prevented him from sending it to the god,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.860
§ 5.860 He also wrote to Teucrus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.870
§ 5.870 “ Polycleitus the doctor,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.880
§ 5.880 And he also asks from him not to request money,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.890
§ 5.890 He sent to Phalaris...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.900
§ 5.900 “I spared them for their honesty. For when they were asked why they were planning to kill me,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.910
§ 5.910 Take these five talents and give them to her....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.920
§ 5.920 Needed one, even though they did not say so....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.930
§ 5.930 He was a dear friend to Stesichorus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.940
§ 5.940 Such were the deeds of Phalaris...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.950
§ 5.950 So that they do not become whores And nothing hinders me at all....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.960
§ 5.960 If only one of them was to turn around and fight the hawk,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.970
§ 5.970 CONCERNING ARCHIMEDES, OF WHOM I’VE WRITTEN IN THE 35TH Story ( TE2.32 E6...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.975
§ 5.975 ( TE2.33 ) CONCERNING THE SCRIBES OF DARIUS AND XERXES,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.982
§ 5.982 ( TE2.34 ) CONCERNING CEPHALUS The orator Cephalus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.990
§ 5.990 Cephalus gave them eight hundred shields And sponsored their victory over the tyrants....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:5.1000
§ 5.1000 ( TE2.35 ) CONCERNING CTESIPHON,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.4
§ 6.4 CHILIADES BOOK 6, TRANSLATED BY KONSTANTINOS RAMIOTIS CONCERNING TIMARCHUS ( TE2.36...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.10
§ 6.10 Whom lines of men indecorous call immodest and immoral,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.20
§ 6.20 Lashing my whip on the face of war and going the way of peace,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.30
§ 6.30 But teeming now it is with men and empty fields,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.40
§ 6.40 The one Lysias introduced with elegance and eloquence,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.50
§ 6.50 -All these had the approval of the city of Athens...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.60
§ 6.60 Thus did Aeschines...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.64
§ 6.64 ( TE2.37 ) CONCERNING DEMOSTHENES AND OTHERS From oblivion have I now recovered the matters concerning Demosthenes...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.70
§ 6.70 So, listen once more about Demosthenes...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.80
§ 6.80 Where the enemy hands him gifts, the so called “gardens” And weds one of the rich Scythian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.90
§ 6.90 And then he began advocating and speaking publicly,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.100
§ 6.100 But they refused to pay him And dragged him instead to court....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.110
§ 6.110 The rest think of him as filthy and although Lycurgus...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.120
§ 6.120 Are you willing to stand against Philip...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.130
§ 6.130 Of his status and roots he boasts And puckers his eyebrows,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.140
§ 6.140 As being clear signs of his hollow nature And of none of his body parts being unavailable to sale,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.150
§ 6.150 And spoke rubbing his head, such was his habit....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.160
§ 6.160 “They accused my father of being a foreigner among other things”,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.170
§ 6.170 Demosthenes instantly took off for Calauria...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.180
§ 6.180 Being, thus, put to trial according to the Athenian...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.186
§ 6.186 ( TE2.38 ) CONCERNING PYTHO OF BYZANTIUM,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.201
§ 6.201 ( TE2.39 ) CONCERNING CLUSINUS,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.210
§ 6.210 Porsenna seized him and interrogated him: “Why did you do this,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.220
§ 6.220 And when Porsenna...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.224
§ 6.224 ( TE2.40 ) CONCERNING DIONYSIUS,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.233
§ 6.233 This Dionysius,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.240
§ 6.240 Where he began teaching in the middle of the street And spent his time in brothels,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.247
§ 6.247 ( TE2.41 ) CONCERNING PERSEUS,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.253
§ 6.253 ( TE2.42 ) CONCERNING SOMNA AND ELOACEIM,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.260
§ 6.260 On the fourteenth year of Ezekiel...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.270
§ 6.270 From them murdered the messenger thousands during the night A hundred and five and eighty more As this kingly book of mine teaches....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.273
§ 6.273 ( TE2.43 ) CONCERNING DIOPHANTES,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.279
§ 6.279 ( TE2.44 ) CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF QUEEN CLEOPATRA The beautiful and wise Cleopatra...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.290
§ 6.290 These women were responsible for the queen’s hair and nails....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:6.303
§ 6.303 ( TE2.45 ) CONCERNING PHILOSTRATUS THE ORATOR,...
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