Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3809
(formerly typ/1910)

	Ὦ τῶν μεγίστων ἐργεπεῖκτα σκαμμάτων,
	τὸν πρὶν ἐκεῖνον ζωγραφῶν Εὐρυσθέα,
	κ' ἂν οὐκ ἀμισθὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας προτρέπῃς,
	δώροις δὲ συχνοῖς νῦν ἐλαύνεις πρὸς πόνους,
	δέξαι τὸν ἆθλον ἐντελῆ πεφηνότα·
	ὁ σὸς γὰρ αὐτὸν Ἡρακλῆς ὡς προὐτράπη,
	δείκνυσι τανῦν ἐμφανῶς ἠνυσμένον.
	Τρέσῃς δὲ μηδὲν, μὴ προπέμψῃς Κοπρέα
	τούτου θεατήν, προστατοῦντα τῶν πόνων.
	(...)
	ῥήτωρ, ἐλέγχων ῥητορεύοντας πόνους.

Text status	Text partially unknown
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Herakles
Tag(s)	Completion of the book
Comment	Verses 1-9 are taken from D'Agostini-Pizzone and verse 24 from Meyier.
Bibliography	Primary C. D'Agostini, A. Pizzone 2021, Clawing Rhetoric Back: Humor and Polemic in Tzetzes’ Hexameters on the Historiai, Parekbolai, 11, 123-158: 147-148 K. De Meyier, 1955, Codices vossiani graeci et miscellanei, Leiden: 93
Number of verses	24
Occurrence(s)	[19743] ὦ τῶν μεγίστων ἐργεπεῖκτα· σκαμμάτων [1151-1200] LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 1 [1151-1200] (f. 211v-212r) (24 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.