Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

§ 7.970 The medical art. He wrote Fifty three books....

§ 7.980 They say there are four reasons for this: Either because he had a pain in the head,...

§ 7.990 ( TE2.156 ) CONCERNING THE SACK OF MILETUS IN THE PLAY OF PHRYNICHUS In the time of Darius...

§ 7.1000 He was fined a thousand drachmas by the Athenians...

§ 7.1000 8.7 BOOK 8, TRANSLATED BY VASILIKI DOGANI ( TE2.157...

§ 8.12 ( TE2.158 ) CONCERNING “MENELAUS WEPT AND SO HELEN OF ARGOS WEPT” In the Odyssey...

§ 8.18 ( TE2.159 ) CONCERNING THE PROVERB “WHEN SOMEONE ASKS FOR BUCKETS,...

§ 8.23 ( TE2.160 ) CONCERNING THE PARASITE WHO WAS LATE FOR DINNER Libanius...

§ 8.30 ( TE2.161 ) CONCERNING THE SAYING “MANY PEOPLE COMMIT WRONG,...

§ 8.45 ( TE2.162 ) CONCERNING THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE BY THE SAVIOUR WITH FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD From the Gospel,...

§ 8.49 ( TE2.163 ) CONCERNING “WHEN A CUCKOO CRIES” The cuckoo is a bird similar to a falcon;...

§ 8.52 ( TE2.164 ) CONCERNING THE “WEEKS” OF DANIEL Foretelling the incarnation of the Saviour...

§ 8.60 ( TE2.165 ) CONCERNING “SPEAKING MANY FALSE THINGS AS THOUGH THEY WERE TRUE” In the Odyssey...

§ 8.65 ( TE2.166 ) CONCERNING THE ONE MORE TALKATIVE THAN THE CICADAS,...

§ 8.70 But if cold weather arrives, it remains silent and ceases its chirping songs....

§ 8.80 This happen to be a foolish myth that needs to be interpreted allegorically....

§ 8.92 ( TE2.167 ) CONCERNING THE SPEECHLESSNESS OF THE SERIPHIAN FROGS While every terrestrial frog...

§ 8.95 ( TE2.168 ) CONCERNING “FOR HARMONIDES BY FAR MORE YOU,...

§ 8.100 ( TE2.169 ) CONCERNING PARODY AND PASTING In his book On Method of Forceful Style Hermogenes...

§ 8.110 “He ravished a maiden and tamed her against her will.” [Oppian,...

§ 8.121 Paragrammatism is very close to parody,...

§ 8.130 Now that you have learned what is pasting and what is parody,...

§ 8.132 ( TE2.170 ) CONCERNING THE THE HEALING WATER DRUNK BY ANOTHER FOR SNAKEBITE VICTIMS If someone,...

§ 8.141 ( TE2.171 ) CONCERNING TYPHON Typhon...

§ 8.145 ( TE2.172 ) CONCERNING “FOR A LONG TIME I STAYED SPEECHLESS HEARING THE WORDS” In Iliad...

§ 8.150 ( TE2.173 ) CONCERNING THE COMPASSION OF CRASSUS THE ROMAN Crassus...

§ 8.160 ( TE2.174 ) CONCERNING A HISTORICAL WORD,...

§ 8.165 ( TE2.175 ) CONCERNING “BUT WHAT COULD I DO? GOD BRINGS ALL THINGS TO PASS” After Briseis...

§ 8.177 ( TE2.176 ) CONCERNING “QUICK TO COME IS ONE’S SATIETY OF CHILLING SORROW” Homer...

§ 8.190 Death becomes intelligible to Tzetzes...

§ 8.192 ( TE2.177 ) CONCERNING THE DEATH,...

§ 8.198 ( TE2.178 ) CONCERNING THE MUCUS EARWAX Slime,...

§ 8.208 ( TE2.179 ) CONCERNING “THOUGH CUTTING OUR HAIR IS A TRIBUTE TO THE SAD DEAD” AND CONCERNING “BUT,...

§ 8.220 “But, that the spirit of man can be brought back again,...

§ 8.222 ( TE2.180 ) CONCERNING “BUT WHEN THE DUST HAS DRAWN UP THE BLOOD OF A MAN,...

§ 8.230 Writing in iambic verses Aeschylus...

§ 8.233 ( TE2.181 ) CONCERNING SOCRATES WHO SAYS: “I WILL FIND A PLACE MUCH BETTER THAN THIS ONE HERE” Socrates...

§ 8.240 That very man was most nobly philosophizing,...

§ 8.246 ( TE2.182 ) CONCERNING THE WORDS WHICH THE SPECTRE OF PATROCLUS SAYS TO ACHILLES: “NOT WHILE I WAS ALIVE WERE YOU UNMINDFUL OF ME,...

§ 8.254 ( TE2.183 ) CONCERNING THE RIVER ILISSOS Ilissos...

§ 8.258 ( TE2.184 ) CONCERNING THE DODECACRUNOS (OF TWELVE SPRINGS) MOUTH Callirhoe...

§ 8.266 ( TE2.185 ) CONCERNING THE ATTIC FOUNTAIN CALLIRHOE Of the mouth of twelve springs and Callirhoe...

§ 8.270 ( TE2.186 ) WHAT LARINOS IS Note that everything big is call larinon;...

§ 8.279 ( TE2.187 ) CONCERNING “AS PYTHAGORAS PROVED ME SILENT” Pythagoras...

§ 8.286 ( TE2.188 ) CONCERNING THE MIGRATION OF THE SUN TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN They say there are five poles of the celestial sphere,...

§ 8.300 When it moves towards the North Pole and the Tropic of Cancer,...

§ 8.302 ( TE2.189 ) CONCERNING THE TRIBON,...

§ 8.310 I even spoke to you of the tiara; Now,...

§ 8.314 ( TE2.190 ) CONCERNING “TO MOST MORTALS THE HAVEN OF FRIENDSHIP IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED” Euripides...

§ 8.319 ( TE2.191 ) CONCERNING POLYKLEITOS Polykleitos...

§ 8.325 ( TE2.192 ) CONCERNING PHIDIAS Phidias...

§ 8.330 The ivory Athena...

§ 8.340 ( TE2.193 ) CONCERNING ALCAMENES Alcamenes...

§ 8.350 Striving for decorum more than the others,...

§ 8.360 And considering that the whole shape would seem much smaller in proportion to the height of the appointed place,...

§ 8.370 ( TE2.194 ) CONCERNING MYRON Myron...

§ 8.375 ( TE2.195 ) CONCERNING PRAXITELES Praxiteles...

§ 8.388 ( TE2.196 ) CONCERNING ZEUXIS Zeuxis...

§ 8.392 ( TE2.197 ) CONCERNING APELLES Apelles...

§ 8.388 ( TE2.198 ) CONCERNING PARRHASIUS This Parrhasius...

§ 8.408 ( TE2.199 ) CONCERNING STASICRATES Stasicrates was a bronze-worker and a native of Bithynia...

§ 8.416 ( TE2.200 ) CONCERNING LYSIPPOS And this Lysippos...

§ 8.435 ( TE2.201 ) CONCERNING YOUR LITTLE FROGS WITH THE SWOLLEN JAW Aristophanes...

§ 8.442 ( TE2.202 ) CONCERNING AUTOLYCUS’ THEFTS Autolycus...

§ 8.450 For whenever he stole, he replaced the stolen goods and returned one thing for another....

§ 8.461 ( TE2.203 ) ACCORDING TO THE COMIC POET: “BITING MYSELF,...

§ 8.470 But he even wears his regular most feminine clothing,...

§ 8.478 ( TE2.204 ) CONCERNING LYCOPHRON OF CHALCIS There were several men of the name of Lycophron...

§ 8.490 That the very things which he interprets are the children of his own reasoning,...

§ 8.500 ( TE2.205 ) CONCERNING THE BIRD OF ATHENA,...

§ 8.510 The king of all birds in borrowed plumage....

§ 8.520 According to which the jackdaw was exceptionally deformed before,...

§ 8.523 ( TE2.206 ) YOU WHO PUT THE JACKDAW TO THE TEST Now a reversal of stories has occurred,...

§ 8.530 The Owl is said to be the bird of Athena...

§ 8.537 ( TE2.207 ) CONCERNING THE DRONES,...

§ 8.550 Whoever says something else writing about the drones,...

§ 8.552 ( TE2.208 ) CONCERNING “AGREE WITH THE LAD PROCLAIMING THAT HONEY IS ACQUIRED BY THE BEE’S LABOUR” Learn that this happen to be an ironic figure of speech....

§ 8.560 The Macedonians...

§ 8.570 ( TE2.209 ) CONCERNING THE PROVERB SAYING “EVEN THE STONES WILL CRY OUT” We say this proverb for things that are excessively obvious....

§ 8.574 ( TE2.210 ) CONCERNING THE INDIANS The land of the Indians...

§ 8.582 ( TE2.211 ) CONCERNING THE PILLARS OF DIONYSUS Near the mountain of Hemodon Some people have set up pillars,...

§ 8.588 ( TE2.212 ) CONCERNING THE EASTERN OCEAN The Ocean,...

§ 8.600 For out of the Zephyrus...

§ 8.610 And he says that the rivers and the earthquakes,...

§ 8.620 In turn, two other mouths on the South Formed a passage to the Persian Gulf...

§ 8.630 The one towards the South and the southern parts Both Persian...

§ 8.633 ( TE2.213 ) CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF TAPROBANE Taprobane...

§ 8.640 And eat them easily, after dropping them to the ground....

§ 8.648 ( TE2.214 ) CONCERNING THE INDIAN ISLAND WHICH IS CALLED GOLDEN There is an Indian...

§ 8.653 ( TE2.215 ) CONCERNING THE SIDE OF ZEPHYRUS There are twelve winds,...

§ 8.660 With everything behind you being towards the west,...

§ 8.670 You are fully informed about the places on the right side of the earth towards Lips...

§ 8.680 Both of them bind close together the Latins...

§ 8.685 ( TE2.216 ) CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF GADEIRA The island that is now called Gadeira...

§ 8.690 The Phoenician...

§ 8.700 But it just happens to start with the syllable ga....

§ 8.707 ( TE2.217 ) CONCERNING THE RIVER BAETIS OF GADEIRA Baetis...

§ 8.717 ( TE2.218 ) CONCERNING THE ISLES OF THE HESPERIDES AND THE BRITISH ISLES The Brettanic isles...

§ 8.726 ( TE2.219 ) TOWARDS THE BLASTS OF NOTOS AND TURNING TO GO SOUTHWARD The position of the inhabited world looks like an omicron....

§ 8.733 ( TE2.220 ) CONCERNING THE INHABITABLE AND UNINHABITABLE PARTS OF ETHIOPIA Towards the southern part,...