Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3260
(formerly typ/1394)

	Κἀντεῦθεν ἂν κατίδοι τις τοῦ Ζωτικοῦ τὴν φύσιν
	καὶ τὴν σπουδὴν τὴν ἄμετρον, ἣν ἔχει περὶ λόγους·
	τοῦ γὰρ βιβλίου τουτουῒ μηδενὸς στερουμένου,
	μὴ δ' ἐνδεῶς τυγχάνοντος ὧνπερ προσῆκεν ἔχειν
	τὸν Εὐριπίδην τὸν σοφὸν ποιητικῆς τὸ κλέος,
	ὁδ' ὥσπερ οὐκ ἀρκούμενος τοῖς ὧδε γεγραμμένοις
	καὶ τοὺς παρόντας τουτουσὶ γραμματικοῦ τοῦ Τζέτζου
	στίχους προσέθηκεν αὐτῷ μηδόλως ἀμελήσας,
	μὴ δ᾽ ἀνασχόμενος εἰπεῖν τινὰ τῶν περὶ λόγους,
	ὡς ἄρα τοῦτον κάλλιον ἐκτήσατο βιβλίον.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Chortasmenos monkname Ignatios (1370 - 1436-1437) - RGK: I.191, II.252, III.315 - VGH: 158.D, 175.B, 203.A - PLP: XII.30897 (metropolites of Selymbria < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Subject(s)	Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC) John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Primary K. Dindorf, 1863, Scholia graeca in Euripidis tragoedias ex codicibus aucta et emendata (vol. 1), Oxford: 203 C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 272
Number of verses	10
Occurrence(s)	[19105] Κἀντεῦθεν ἂν κατίδοι τις τοῦ ζωτικοῦ τ(ήν) φύσιν [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 142 [1326-1500] (f. 5r) (10 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lev Shadrin The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 398: "Ioann. Chortasmenus, In Zoticum"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.