Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades

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§ 8.740 Both Ethiopia...
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§ 8.751 ( TE2.221 ) CONCERNING THE ARCTIC AND NORTHERN REGION The place which lies towards the north part of the inhabited world Arctic is called,...
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§ 8.759 ( TE2.222 ) CONCERNING THE AGATHYRSI The race of the Agathyrsi...
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§ 8.764 ( TE2.223 ) CONCERNING THE GELONI Even the race of the Geloni...
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§ 8.767 ( TE2.224 ) CONCERNING THE MAEOTIAN SCYTHIANS AND THE CAUCASIAN SCYTHIANS There are three tribes of the Scythians...
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§ 8.770 Maeotis itself among the Greeks is rich according to its name,...
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§ 8.780 The one closest to Hyrcania...
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§ 8.790 ( TE2.225 ) CONCERNING THE EARTH AND THE SEA,...
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§ 8.793 ( TE2.226 ) CONCERNING THE THESSALIAN SOLDIER WHO CONCEALED HIMSELF AT THE COURT OF LYCOMEDES As Achilles...
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§ 8.801 ( TE2.227 ) CONCERNING “COMPARED WITH THE BEE DO NOT BECOME MORE UNGRATEFUL THAN THE DRONES” Drones are animals bred up together with the bees...
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§ 8.810 Since they offer the service of carrying them water in return....
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§ 8.814 ( TE2.228 ) CONCERNING,...
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§ 8.820 Whereas the chest of favours was empty....
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§ 8.830 And countless other notable men. This Simonides...
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§ 8.837 ( TE2.229 ) CONCERNING “NOT EVEN THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE EVENING,...
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§ 8.842 ( TE2.230 ) CONCERNING THE AESOPIAN HOUND BITING THE HARE,...
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§ 8.848 ( TE2.231 ) CONCERNING THE HISTORICAL WORDS BOULUTOS AND GRAMMATEION AND GRAMMATION Boulutos is the time when the land workers Release the oxen...
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§ 8.854 ( TE2.232 ) CONCERNING VOTING BY SHOW OF HANDS AND WHAT THE METHOD OF FORMER VOTING WAS In former times,...
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§ 8.860 But if the one occupying the magistracy was not acceptable,...
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§ 8.866 ( TE2.233 ) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SYNODOS AND A SYLLOGOS Learn the difference between a synodos and a syllogos....
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§ 8.869 ( TE2.234 ) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PARAPLEX,...
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§ 8.880 So they draw stones and swords and they strike any chance person....
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§ 8.889 ( TE2.235 ) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD TYREUONTES The act of contriving by trickery and intrigue was named tyreuein after the Tyrrheni...
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§ 8.896 ( TE2.236 ) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORD ATOPON Atopon (strange),...
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§ 8.901 ( TE2.237 ) CONCERNING THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD SCAIOROUSIN (TO DEVISE MISCHIEVOUSLY) Scaion (ill-omened) means anything left-sided and useless,...
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§ 8.905 ( TE2.238 ) CONCERNING THE ONE WHO DOES NOT EVEN DO THE WRONGDOERS WRONG Charillus...
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§ 8.909 ( TE2.239 ) WHAT CATHARMATA AND PHARMACOI MEAN,...
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§ 8.920 ( TE2.240 ) CONCERNING THE DRUGS AGAINST VENOMOUS BEASTS AND COMMON ANTIPATHY The makers of antidotes against the venomous bites of beasts The snakes...
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§ 8.927 ( TE2.241 ) CONCERNING THE INFATUATED AND MELANCHOLY MAD ONES Being both infatuated and deranged Is some kind of mild wandering of the mind,...
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§ 8.930 ( TE2.242 ) CONCERNING HOW MUCH CARE THE JACKDAWS BESTOWED ON THE REALM [930] When some people are utterly and by all means free from care,...
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§ 8.933 ( TE2.243 ) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “OR HOW DO THE EAGLES CARE FOR THE LAWS OF PLATO?” Note that this is also a similar proverb,...
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§ 8.938 ( TE2.244 ) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “AND THE NIGHTINGALES FOR THE RATIONAL CALCULATION OF ARISTOTLE” Note also this proverb equal to the other: “For how do the nightingales care for rational calculation? Or for such sort of Aristotelian books?”
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§ 8.941 ( TE2.245 ) IF YOU WISH,...
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§ 8.947 ( TE2.246 ) CONCERNING ARTAXERXES MACROCHEIR,...
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§ 8.949 ( TE2.247 ) HOW HADRIANOUPOLIS IS CALLED AELIA Hadrian...
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§ 8.961 ( TE2.248 ) THE PROVERB THAT SAYS: “ABOVE GOLD AND TOPAZ” In case of big gifts we say this proverb,...
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§ 8.972 ( TE2.249 ) CONCERNING THE INSCRIPTION AT THE FRONT DOOR OF PLATO’S HOUSE “LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER” Plato...
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§ 8.976 ( TE2.250 ) CONCERNING A SICK MAN,...
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§ 8.981 ( TE2.251 ) CONCERNING THE EPICUREANS SAYING THAT THE HONEY IS THE TENTH PART OF AMBROSIA There was a sect of Epicurean...
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§ 8.985 ( TE2.252 ) AS HERODOTUS TELLS OF PROSPEROUS ARABIA Herodotus...
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§ 8.993 ( TE2.253 ) CONCERNING THE GIFTS THAT ANTHONY GAVE CLEOPATRA The daughter of Ptolemy Dionysius...
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§ 9.001 BOOK 9, TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER Himself was at that time the judge of their cause....
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§ 9.10 Having accepted that most readily Caesar Approved it and after a splendid judgement seat was acquired,...
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§ 9.20 Everyone was astonished and listened with uttermost silence....
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§ 9.30 Being the nephew of Caesar Gaius Julius...
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§ 9.40 Of her picture left his wife And he becomes Cleopatra...
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§ 9.50 And the son of Tigranes...
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§ 9.60 With neither the shipowners nor the oarsmen,...
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§ 9.70 With Roman military stratagems. For he covered the hills with skins recently stripped from oxen...
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§ 9.80 And Cleopatra committed suicide by the bites of the asps,...
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§ 9.88 ( TE2.254 ) CONCERNING MANOAH’S VISION OF GOD AND WHAT HE SAID Manoah lived with a barren wife Their childlessness pained them greatly....
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§ 9.100 Thus spoke Manoah at the time of the appearance But later the woman,...
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§ 9.103 ( TE2.255 ) CONCERNING HOW MOSES WAS BRIGHTENED BY HIS VISION OF GOD After God conversed with Moses...
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§ 9.111 ( TE2.256 ) CONCERNING THE WISDOM OF THE PORPHYRY BIRD The porphyry bird was exceedingly wise....
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§ 9.115 ( TE2.257 ) CONCERNING WHAT THE WORD AGEROCHOS MEANS The word agerochos has three meanings: Glorious,...
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§ 9.122 ( TE2.258 ) CONCERNING WHAT THE WORD SKYTALE MEANS,...
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§ 9.130 The fifth meaning is any kind of rod,...
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§ 9.140 And, stretching it across the whole surface of the rod,...
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§ 9.150 Then, the recipient, having received the rod and the skin,...
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§ 9.156 ( TE2.259 ) CONCERNING THE MOSELE MONASTERY What is now the Monastery of Mosele used to be Mosele’s house,...
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§ 9.160 I only wonder how it could be that such a man,...
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§ 9.165 ( TE2.260 ) CONCERNING A FABLE OF AESOP: “SHOT BY MY OWN FEATHERS!” Aesop...
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§ 9.169 ( TE2.261 ) CONCERNING ISAAC,...
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§ 9.180 That Jacob used against his brother Esau...
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§ 9.190 And constrained by sickness, called to Esau...
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§ 9.200 So he brought her the kid...
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§ 9.210 “The voice is Jacob...
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§ 9.216 ( TE2.262 ) CONCERNING HISTIAEUS AND ARISTAGORAS Histiaeus...
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§ 9.220 ( Myrkinos is what Hedonon used to be called)....
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§ 9.230 His son-in-law, and also Histiaeus...
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§ 9.240 But Aristagoras wore it.’” That is: Histiaeus...
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§ 9.249 ( TE2.263 ) CONCERNING “BE LIKE SNAKES”,...
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§ 9.260 “Be as pure as doves for my sake” And again he clarifies and means the same thing: For doves are said to be so pure and wise,...
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§ 9.270 And their head, that is to say, our faith....
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§ 9.278 ( TE2.264 ) CONCERNING “DO NOT BE WISE ACCORDING TO YOURSELF” Solomon...
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§ 9.290 I took a very large quarto to write in As many as ten quartos,...
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§ 9.298 ( TE2.265 ) CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ALITERIOS There once was a great famine in Athens...
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§ 9.304 ( TE2.266 ) CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PACHYS AND PACHES Pachys,...
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§ 9.321 ( TE2.267 ) CONCERNING “HE WHO DOES NOT ENTER THROUGH THE DOOR”,...
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§ 9.330 And also diggers, cloistered ones, one who drags beasts,...
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§ 9.333 ( TE2.268 ) CONCERNING “DRAGGING ALONG BEASTS LIKE ORPHEUS” Orpheus...
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§ 9.338 ( TE2.269 ) CONCERNING “DON’T RECEIVE IT,...
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§ 9.344 ( TE2.270 ) CONCERNING A QUOTE FROM HESIOD,...
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§ 9.355 ( TE2.271 ) CONCERNING “I AM NOT A SOOTHSAYER OR ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE SIGNS OF BIRDS” I poured out this quote,...
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§ 9.370 Then the same is said of men who write metaphrases of books,...
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§ 9.380 ( TE2.272 ) CONCERNING “A CLOUD OF FLEAS OVER XERXES’ UNNUMBERED HOST” This expedition is an army,...
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§ 9.385 ( TE2.273 ) CONCERNING IXION’S WHEEL Ixion...
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§ 9.400 Who had sex with the Magnesian...
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§ 9.410 The rest of the story has gone by, Hera...
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§ 9.420 Then some farmers saw them, and were amazed....
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§ 9.430 And how could horse riders not have been known to the Greeks? Horse riders and riding- horses...
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§ 9.440 That you were lying to me and speaking inaccurately....
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§ 9.450 Nor does the planet Zeus...
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§ 9.460 The cleansed man lusted after. But since she was virtuous,...
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§ 9.470 (Let it not slip your mind that aura means a female slave)....
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§ 9.480 He, in turn, stewarded the place, settled down,...
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§ 9.490 Of horses the Thessalians...
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§ 9.497 ( TE2.274 ) CONCERNING DEXIPPUS’ SCYTHICA Dexippus...
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§ 9.502 ( TE2.275 ) CONCERNING THE SEMIRAMIAN WALLS A certain Assyrian...
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§ 9.520 Simmas took her and turned to go home,...

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