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Some Notes on the Historical Poems of George of Pisidia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Norman H. Baynes
Norman H. Baynes
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Northwood, Middlesex
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(i.) Even after the masterly studies of Leo Sternbach following on the paper by Hilberg1 there are still some small points to be noted on the historical poems of George of Pisidia. In what follows I have, of course, presupposed a knowledge of Sternbach's work which has happily rendered superfluous the new text which he was to have edited for Methuen's Series of Byzantine Texts.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1912 , pp. 82 - 90
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1912

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page 82 note 1 Isidor Hilberg: xg' Textkritische Beitrage zu Georgios Pisides,' Wiener Studien IX (1887), pp. 207–222. Leo Sternbach: ' Georgii Pisidae Carmina Inedita,' Wiener Studien XIII (1891), pp. 1–62, XIV (1892), pp. 51–68. Id: Rozprawy Akademii UmiejętnościWydzia+ filologiczny. Serya II, Tom xv, Krakow, 1900, pp. 365.

page 84 note 1 Cf. N. H. Baynes: ‘The First Campaign of Heraclius against Persia,’ E.H.R. xix. (1904), pp. 694–702.

page 86 note 1 Cf. Exp. Pers. I 21 sqq., Exp. Pers. I I 239 sqq.: (Heraclius) Exp. Pers. Ill 9 of Heraclius: in a contrast with the Persian faith. Exp. Pers. Ill 138 speaking of George writes And Exp. Pers. I l l 439 of the children of Heraclius when praying Further cf. Theophanes 3085, ed. de Boor, of the sacred fire which is from a lost verse of George of Pisidia.

page 86 note 2 Though this was absolutely true, I cannot help feeling that in a panegyric of a successful Emperor, when the poet laureate proceeds to prophesy the fall of Chosroes himself as well as Sâhrbaraz, this line is to say the least somewhat infelicitous, and I am tempted to suggest NOW that they are safe the citizens can afford to wonder at the danger from which they have escaped

page 86 note 3 Used by George, Exp. Pers. I 199. For the poet's use of words formed from compounds of έργov cf, sternbach, Rozprawy, etc., pp. 238–9.

page 88 note 1 e conj. Sternbach, Rozprawy, etc p. 21 n4. Cf. Exp. Pers. II 262, Her. II 108 e conj. Sternbach ibid., p. 246

page 89 note 1 Stephanus, it is recorded, ventured on a prophecy, which events falsified, as to the dura- tion of the Mohammedan power. As to this cf. Cedrenus I, p. 717. 7, and H. Usener: De Stephano Alexcmdrino Commentatio, Bonn, 1880 pp. 8 sqq.

page 89 note 2 Baron von Rosen: ‘ Zamyetki o Lyetopisi Agapiya Manbidzhskago,’ Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnago Prosvyeshcheniya, part cexxxi., 1884 February, pp. 47–75; and on Agapius cf. A. Vasiliev: ‘ Agapy, Manbidzhsky Khristiansky arabsky Istorik X. Vyeka,’ Vizantuisky Vremmenih XI. (1904), pp. 574–587

page 89 note 3 Usener, op. cit., p. 3. Cf. K. Krumbacher: Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, 2nd ed Munich, 1897, pp. 430, 614, 621