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Type 31254

	Καὶ τὸ τροπαῖον μὴ τρόπαιόν μοι γράφε·
	ἂν ἀττικῶς γράφῃς δὲ ταῦτα σοὶ λέγω.
	Ἄλλῃ δὲ γλωσσῶν εἰ γράφεις μοι τοὺς λόγους,
	δίφθογγον ἱππεῖς καὶ τρόπαιόν μοι γράφε.

Text source	M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 63
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Grammar
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Correction Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	And don’t write τρόπαιον for τροπαῖον. I tell you to do this if you want to write in Attic. But if you want to write in some other dialect, then write hippeis with a diphthong and τρόπαιον. Language English Source(s) A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 70 Ed anche τροπαῖον non scrivermelo τρόπαιον: ti dico di far così naturalmente se scrivi in attico. Infatti se mi ti metti a scrivere in un altro dei dialetti, scrivimi pure ἱππεῖς con dittongo e τρόπαιον. Language Italian Source(s) M. Luzzatto, 1999, Tzetzes lettore di Tucidide: note autografe sul Codice Heidelberg Palatino Greco 252, Bari: 63
Comment	Text of Luzzatto (1999: 63) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary C. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 51 M. Luzzatto 2000, Note inedite di Giovanni Tzetzes e restauro di antichi codici alla fine del XIII secolo: il problema del Laur. 70,3 di Erodoto, in G. Prato (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca Cremona, 4 - 10 ottobre 1998 (vol. 2), Firenze, 633-654: 634 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 70
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[31257] (καὶ) τὸ, τροπαῖ(ον), μὴ, \| τρόπαι(όν) μοι γράφε [1146-1155] HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 252 [851-950] (f. 26r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 387: "Ioann. Tzetzes*, Scholium in Thucydidem (1.63.3)"
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