Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

§ 6.309 ( TE2.46 ) CONCERNING SOME OTHER ANONYMOUS SECRETARIES To Cato...

§ 6.320 When the son said to Cato...

§ 6.331 ( TE2.47 ) CONCERNING LEMPHO,...

§ 6.342 ( TE2.48 ) CONCERNING BATTUS,...

§ 6.350 But Phoebus the god sends you off to Libya...

§ 6.360 If it is cultivated, it leaves the country of its origin....

§ 6.367 ( TE2.49 ) CONCERNING ANDOCIDES,...

§ 6.376 ( TE2.50 ) CONCERNING DEMOSTHENES,...

§ 6.390 “Many squads would lack a wine-pourer”;...

§ 6.400 If anyone sees the histories here as too brief,...

§ 6.410 ( TE2.51 ) CONCERNING PARMENION AND NICANOR Parmenion...

§ 6.420 He was given the name Plato...

§ 6.424 ( TE2.52 ) CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF HEROD,...

§ 6.430 Alexander was born after Aristobulus...

§ 6.440 Is this petty man still alive? Does he still see the light of the sun? O by the king’s reason,...

§ 6.450 Found then unexpected salvation And Archelaus...

§ 6.460 And then Diophantus...

§ 6.470 ( TE2.53 ) CONCERNING XERMODIGESTUS,...

§ 6.481 ( TE2.54 ) CONCERNING CANDAULUS’ WIFE,...

§ 6.485 ( TE2.55 ) CONCERNING LAETUS AND ECLECTUS,...

§ 6.490 But one that started in front of the arena and not the palace....

§ 6.500 She makes a poison by herself and handles it to him to drink And while Commodus...

§ 6.504 ( TE2.56 ) CONCERNING PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS,...

§ 6.508 ( TE2.57 ) CONCERNING HELENUS,...

§ 6.516 ( TE2.58 ) CONCERNING WHAT THE CHALCIDEAN POET SAYS ABOUT ANTENOR Lycophron...

§ 6.518 ( T59 ) CONCERNING WHAT THE AUTHOR FROM CHAIRONEIA TELLS ABOUT VINDICIUS In the Parallel Lives Plutarch...

§ 6.27 ( TE2.60 ) CONCERNING WHAT COCCEIANUS WRITES ABOUT CORIOLANUS Cassius Dio...

§ 6.540 They thought they were under attack and fled to all directions....

§ 6.550 They took battle positions against the Romans And were it not for the fact that,...

§ 6.561 ( TE2.61 ) CONCERNING WHAT THE AUTHOR FROM ANTIOCH WRITES ABOUT AGAVE,...

§ 6.570 From Zeus and Semele...

§ 6.580 So does Euripides describe the story of the Bacchants...

§ 6.592 ( TE2.62 ) “YOU THINK I AM MARGITES?” In the second list,...

§ 6.600 ( TE2.63 ) CONCERNING THE STONE NIOBE WHO SHED TEARS IN SIPYLUM Niobe...

§ 6.607 ( TE2.64 ) CONCERNING THE COLUMN OF MEMNON IN THE THEBES OF EGYPT Memnon...

§ 6.614 ( TE2.65 ) CONCERNING THE PROPHECIES REGARDING THE IRON STONE According to Orpheus...

§ 6.621 ( TE2.66 ) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MAGNESIAN STONE,...

§ 6.630 She will reach out to your neck and hang her arms around you....

§ 6.639 ( TE2.67 ) CONCERNING LIQUID SILVER Everyone says that mercury loves gold....

§ 6.646 ( TE2.68 ) CONCERNING OTHER STONES I WILL NOT SAY MUCH Some precious stone draws all other stones to it Even gold or some stone from the deeps,...

§ 6.655 ( TE2.69 ) CONCERNING THE RIGIDITY OF SOPHOCLES,...

§ 6.660 ( TE2.70 ) PROVERB “YOU WOUNDED ME,...

§ 6.667 ( TE2.71 E6 ) CONCERNING THE VOICE THAT MARCUS CEDICIUS HEARD FROM THE SKIES Somewhere in the Parallel Lives,...

§ 6.675 ( TE2.72 E7 ) CONCERNING THE CITY OF MEDIA Medea...

§ 6.690 This Midas was a chariot driver And he took the cows...

§ 6.700 ( TE2.73 ) CONCERNING THE TERMS DIAULUS,...

§ 6.708 ( TE2.74 ) CONCERNING THE LOTUS There is the wild herb they call lotus,...

§ 6.714 ( TE2.75 E8 ) CONCERNING THE SIRENS The Sirens...

§ 6.720 ( TE2.76 E8 ) CONCERNING POLYDAMNEIA’S REMEDIES Homer...

§ 6.730 Of his father or brother or even his dear son....

§ 6.739 ( TE2.77 ) CONCERNING ODYSSEUS,...

§ 6.744 ( TE2.78 ) CONCERNING HOW TIMIDITY LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS,...

§ 6.748 ( TE2.79 ) CONCERNING HOW TO TRAIN YOURSELF THROUGH PREPARATION Know that the lawyer’s art is called rhetoric,...

§ 6.760 How to counter the opponent’s arguments and how to present one’s own As well as in how many and which ways this should be done....

§ 6.770 The rest are called specific. But the wise Hermogenes...

§ 6.780 And there are also other types, most similar to legal speeches,...

§ 6.790 Wishing to teach those things to the rest of the orators And stealing everyone from which he had once benefited;...

§ 6.800 So he came upon such things by scheming and plotting And it was by help of others as well not different from him....

§ 6.810 Where should he put forth his arguments and where not And where should one place his conclusion and where not So should he approach every part in matters of composition and length What matters should he put forward in each and every one of them And all else comprises the eight parts,...

§ 6.822 ( TE2.80E9 ) CONCERNING NOAH’S ARK The facts regarding Noah...

§ 6.825 ( TE2.81 ) CONCERNING THE FLIGHT OF THE CROW AND THE DOVE FROM THE ARK When the levels of that cataclysmic water came down He first let a crow...

§ 6.834 ( TE2.82 ) CONCERNING PROMETHEUS Hesiod...

§ 6.843 [TE2.83])... Eden means “comfortable”,...

§ 6.843 ( TE2.84 E11 ) CONCERNING PHILOPOEMEN,...

§ 6.858 ( TE2.85 ) CONCERNING THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PAROINIA Learn what a jeering is and what is paroinia And the games of latage and cottabus and eōlocrasia....

§ 6.870 So jeering is the sheer act of hybris and comedy While paroinia is hybris and chattering....

§ 6.880 And, in demonstration of manly courage,...

§ 6.890 Which means that they spew it out and emptied their mouths....

§ 6.900 ( TE2.86 E12 ) CONCERNING A VERSE FROM PINDAR Pindar...

§ 6.910 ( TE2.87 E12 ) CONCERNING METAMELEIA,...

§ 6.917 ( TE2.88 E13 ) CONCERNING HELICON Helicon...

§ 6.921 ( TE2.89 ) CONCERNING THE MUSES They say that the Muses...

§ 6.931 ( TE2.90 ) CONCERNING PIERIA Pieria...

§ 6.940 And praise their father with dances on the mountain of Helicon...

§ 6.945 ( TE2.91 ) CONCERNING LEIBETHRION Leibethrion...

§ 6.949 ( TE2.92 ) CONCERNING YOUR HAVING BECOME LIKE THE BARBARIANS AFTER SPENDING MANY YEARS LIVING AMONG THEM Euripides...

§ 6.953 ( TE2.93 ) CONCERNING ATTIC HONEY FROM HYMETTUS Hymettus...

§ 6.959 ( TE2.94 ) CONCERNING THE THESSALIAN CHEIRON,...

§ 6.970 And, being one of the first to teach the art of horsemanship,...

§ 6.973 ( TE2.95 ) CONCERNING MT....

§ 6.977 ( TE2.96 ) CONCERNING THE STORY OF JASON Jason...

§ 6.989 ( TE2.97 ) CONCERNING THE STORY OF ASCLEPIUS Asclepius...

§ 6.994 ( TE2.98 ) CONCERNING ACHILLES Achilles...

§ 6.1000 [7.1] BOOK 7, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI ( TE2.99...

§ 7.10 Now who the Centaurs...

§ 7.20 Suggests that the Centaurs...

§ 7.30 But it did not happen like that, Pindar...

§ 7.40 Begot a son, Imbrus, whom people were calling “ Centaur...

§ 7.49 ( TE2.100 ) CONCERNING CLEITARCHUS’ WRITING ON THE TENTHREDO This Cleitarchus...

§ 7.57 ( TE2.101 ) CONCERNING THE NEMEAN LION Nemea...

§ 7.65 ( TE2.102 ) CONCERNING THE CALYDONIAN BOAR Oeneus...

§ 7.71 Of the many huntsmen who gathered there,...

§ 7.75 ( TE2.103 ) CONCERNING THE PROVERB “HE WHO LOVES IS BLINDED BY THE BELOVED” All the beloved ones seem to be pleasant to those who love them;...

§ 7.78 ( TE2.104 E13 ) CONCERNING THE PINDARIC MAXIM “NOR DOES HOT WATER SO RELAX THE LIMBS AS PRAISE” In the baths,...

§ 7.81 ( TE2.105 ) CONCERNING TORTOISE’S COMPETING AGAINST THE HARE The writer of fables Aesop...

§ 7.84 ( TE2.106 ) CONCERNING MARSYAS Marsyas...

§ 7.87 ( TE2.107 ) CONCERNING SALMONEUS,...

§ 7.92 ( TE2.108 ) CONCERNING THAMYRIS,...

§ 7.100 “They in their wrath maimed him; they Took from him his wondrous singing and made him forget his lyre playing”....

§ 7.102 ( TE2.109 ) CONCERNING THE HOMERIC PROVERB “OTHERS CARE FOR THINGS LIKE THESE,...