Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

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§ 7.108 ( TE2.110 ) CONCERNING THE LIVING ONE,...
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§ 7.114 ( TE2.111 ) CONCERNING HERACLES,...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.118
§ 7.118 ( TE2.112 ) CONCERNING THE DRINKING GAME COTTABOS We have recently explained exactly and thoroughly,...
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§ 7.123 ( TE2.113 ) CONCERNING WHO THE PALAMNAIOI WERE The Telchines...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.130
§ 7.130 They have been named Alastores, a most suitable name....
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.133
§ 7.133 ( TE2.114 ) CONCERNING THE INQUIRERS (PEUTHENES),...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.140
§ 7.140 As for them, whom they send for matters of treaties,...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.142
§ 7.142 ( TE2.115 ) WHAT IS A PROBOLOS Problis,...
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§ 7.150 A protrusion (probolos) is a rock jutting into the sea,...
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:7.154
§ 7.154 ( TE2.116 E15 ) CONCERNING THE PYTHAGOREAN SILENCE Pythagoras...
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§ 7.159 ( TE2.117 ) CONCERNING CILICIA The sons of Belus...
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§ 7.167 ( TE2.118 ) CONCERNING ANTIOCH As Pausanias...
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§ 7.181 ( TE2.119 ) CONCERNING THE CYRENAIC SILPHIUM We have already spoken about the Cyrenaic...
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§ 7.190 As it happens with the caper, according to some of the experts....
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§ 7.195 ( TE2.120 ) CONCERNING THE HOOP OF THE RING OF GYGES Candaules...
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§ 7.203 ( TE2.121 ) CONCERNING THE RING OF POLYCRATES Polycrates...
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§ 7.210 So then Polycrates...
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§ 7.221 ( TE2.122 ) CONCERNING THE GOLDEN BRICKS OF CROESUS Croesus...
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§ 7.224 ( TE2.123 ) CONCERNING MIDAS Midas...
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§ 7.231 ( TE2.124 ) CONCERNING “HOW THE HALF IS MORE THAN THE WHOLE” Hesiod...
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§ 7.239 ( TE2.125 ) CONCERNING “YOU THE BEST OF PROPHETS,...
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§ 7.249 ( TE2.126 ) CONCERNING CHARITONYMUS OR IOANNES In the Hebrew language the iao stands for the unseen,...
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§ 7.251 ( TE2.127 ) CONCERNING THE LYDIAN STONE,...
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§ 7.260 And after them, they have named basanos the punishments,...
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§ 7.262 ( TE2.128 ) CONCERNING WHEREFORE PROPETES IS CALLED Some of the naturally more developed nestling birds,...
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§ 7.270 The one who speaks anything but the right words,...
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§ 7.273 ( TE2.129 ) CONCERNING TIMON THE MISANTHROPE Timon...
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§ 7.280 And since the rumours of this case were quickly spread,...
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§ 7.287 ( TE2.130 ) CONCERNING THE XENELASIA OF THE LACONIANS The Athenians...
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§ 7.290 ( TE2.131 ) CONCERNING THE CYCLOPES WHO HAD A MUTUAL HATRED AND WERE INCOMPATIBLE The Cyclopes...
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§ 7.299 ( TE2.132 ) CONCERNING THE SERVILII CAESARES Servilius...
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§ 7.307 ( TE2.133 ) CONCERNING AEACUS,...
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§ 7.322 ( TE2.134 ) CONCERNING THE FLOOD OF DEUCALION,...
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§ 7.330 After their coming out of the ark, both men and women And each one of them,...
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§ 7.340 Whereas, they ought to have said it in this way: there were as many stones As the number of the women along with Pyrrha...
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§ 7.343 ( TE2.135 ) CONCERNING PRIAM,...
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§ 7.348 ( TE2.136 ) CONCERNING DANAUS AND AEGYPTUS From Poseidon...
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§ 7.360 And mother of another king, equally,...
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§ 7.370 As well as Danaus...
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§ 7.377 ( TE2.137 ) CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF NIOBE AND AMPHION Niobe...
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§ 7.387 ( TE2.138 ) CONCERNING “HOW THE HORSES OF XERXES’ ARMY DRIED UP THE RIVERS BY LEANING OVER TO DRINK WATER” Xerxes...
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§ 7.400 ( TE2.139 ) CONCERNING THEBES BEING DESTROYED BY ALEXANDER AND THEIR RECONSTRUCTION BY ALEXANDER HIMSELF FOR THE SAKE OF AN ATHLETE It is not reported by many,...
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§ 7.410 In such a piteous way Alexander...
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§ 7.420 Concerning the reconstruction of the city in this way saying in verse: “ Hermes...
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§ 7.430 After even being victorious in the pancratium,...
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§ 7.441 ( TE2.140 ) CONCERNING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF STAGIRA,...
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§ 7.446 ( TE2.141 ) CONCERNING PTOLEMY,...
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§ 7.459 ( TE2.142 ) CONCERNING PANDION AND TEREUS AND PROCNE The king of Athens...
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§ 7.470 Procne, after slaughtering Itys...
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§ 7.480 ( TE2.143 ) CONCERNING CONCEPT AND MERE CONCEPT AND ANTIPODES AND PLATO'S IDEAS The terms Mind (nous),...
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§ 7.490 Thought (dianoia) is the touchstone of inward thought (logos endiathetos),...
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§ 7.500 And needing judgement of calculation (logismos) to come to know,...
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§ 7.504 Know well, then, these things according to Tzetzes...
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§ 7.518 But you wise scumbags, listen to me again....
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§ 7.528 So we speak properly of Mind (nous) pertaining to divine beings;...
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§ 7.536 Now from this, my all-wise vilifiers,...
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§ 7.550 Phaenno many years ago foretold some things,...
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§ 7.560 Who shall plunder the treasures of your country,...
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§ 7.570 Wretched Antioch...
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§ 7.580 Because of them, they said that a few men partake of Mind (nous)....
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§ 7.590 We must speak of the antipodes and of the ideas....
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§ 7.600 Grabbed him by the hand and led him to a lake and after showing him the shadows,...
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§ 7.610 For they are more indiscernible than the indiscernible quicksilver....
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§ 7.620 First, he comprehends via reasoning and he perceives beforehand,...
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§ 7.629 ( TE2.144 ) CONCERNING WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING MORE MISAPPREHENDED THAN THESE There is a book by Scylax...
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§ 7.640 He tells of these things as if they were true and not fabricated....
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§ 7.650 Among those men, whose writings in complex metres I am personally familiar with,...
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§ 7.660 Now hear the verses of Posidippus...
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§ 7.670 And Philostephanus...
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§ 7.680 And even Herodotus...
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§ 7.690 Rich in horses,...
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§ 7.700 Campasus, which pours its water into the divine,...
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§ 7.710 Persistently insists that such things do not exist....
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§ 7.720 Of whom some shaded their faces with their ears,...
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§ 7.730 Uranius somewhere in the third book of his Arabica says,...
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§ 7.740 Two fathoms wide, who would believe him? Whose one single joint makes two merchant vessels? Those who say about the more unusual fennels,...
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§ 7.750 And for the histories he would need more books,...
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§ 7.759 Everyone writes about the things we mentioned above as if they were genuine....
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§ 7.769 ( TE2.145 ) CONCERNING THE BREAD OBELIAS I called obelias a bread here Dirty,...
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§ 7.778 ( TE2.146 ) CONCERNING THE EFFEMINATE SARDANAPALUS Sardanapalus...
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§ 7.790 The voluptuousness of the man is clearly demonstrated to you By an epigram,...
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§ 7.795 ( TE2.147 ) CONCERNING THE DICTUM OF SOLOMON,...
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§ 7.807 ( TE2.148 ) CONCERNING “JUST AS GALEN TEACHES ABOUT THE ANGRY AND RAVING MEN” The raving,...
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§ 7.810 ( TE2.149 ) CONCERNING “DEVOURING HIS OWN SOUL AND SHUNNING THE PATHS OF MEN” Hipponus the Corinthian...
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§ 7.820 He avoided murdering him with his own hands;...
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§ 7.830 So that the youth would be killed in combat with it....
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§ 7.840 Whom Homer depicts as ruthless as a lion...
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§ 7.850 Iobates set Lycian...
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§ 7.860 And his other victories, as it happens to many people....
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§ 7.870 So having been in this way deprived of his eyes,...
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§ 7.882 ( TE2.150 ) CONCERNING “THE MISANTHROPIC ACCORDING TO HIPPOCRATES” I wrote this,...
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§ 7.887 ( TE2.151 ) THAT THERSITES’ NAME WAS RECORDED IN EPIC POETRY FOR INSULTING THE HEROES Thersites...
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§ 7.898 ( TE2.152 ) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONSTROSITY (TERAS),...
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§ 7.910 The one which was done after careful consideration,...
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§ 7.920 For example, just like the heavy rain waters the dry ground,...
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§ 7.927 ( TE2.153 ) CONCERNING “EVEN IF MORE EXCELLENT IN LINEAGE” For Thersites...
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§ 7.929 ( TE2.154 ) CONCERNING HOW PHEIDIAS,...
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§ 7.944 ( TE2.155 ) CONCERNING “PROFITING FROM PERSONAL GRIEF,...
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§ 7.950 Sostratus begot Dardanus...
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§ 7.960 And by Herodicus...

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