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tsetse

[tset´se]

an African fly of the genus Glossina, which transmits trypanosomiasis.

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The Purple Turtle

(= 42 Marcovich) occurs in a scholion on Tzetzes' commentary on the Iliad.

On the wording of Heraclitus, Fragment 126

Gerber (1999: 377): "In Tzetzes' text the phrase is glossed with [phrase omitted], 'the lower part' (of the scales?).

"Persona yambica" en Hiponacte: el caso de la mascara de suplicante

Podria haber varias alusiones: Tzetzes dice que en etrusco nanos significa 'vagabundo'; Dionisio de Halicarnaso menciona un rey pelasgo, Nanas, que habria colonizado Cortona; Teopompo senala que Odiseo se fue de Itaca por la mala conducta de Penelopa y se instalo en Italia.

Lycophron: again about 'Roman interpolations', date, gender and representation/Licofron: de nuevo sobre 'interpolaciones Romanas', fecha, genero y representacion

The poem was associated with Orpheus by Tzetzes in the twelfth century (West 1984, 36).

Statius, Orpheus, and Callimachus Thebaid 2.269-96

Joannes Tzetzes born; wrote a commentary on Ptolomy's astronomy.

Centenaries for 2010

Byzantine scholiast John Tzetzes (in Parsons, 1952) estimated that it contained over 532,800 rolls (including the 42,800 rolls in its nearby sister library, the Sarapeum), and by the mid-first century BCE it is said to have contained over 700,000 rolls (Aulus Gellius, 7.17.3, trans.

Tracing the archetypal academic librarian

Con Miguel Psellos y sus discipulos, en el siglo XI, tenemos diversas interpretaciones alegoricas de inspiracion neoplatonica, y con Juan Tzetzes, en el siglo XII, disponemos de varios volumenes dedicados a una interpretacion alegorica de Homero.

La alegoria. Origenes y desarrollo de la filosofia desde los presocraticos hasta la Ilustracion

LO HUMEDO SE DESECA, LO SECO SE HUMEDECE (JOHANNES TZETZES).

Lo uno Heracliteo consideraciones acerca de la ontologia Heraclitea de lo uno

The other source for medieval Ossetic consists of two lines in the Byzantine court official Ioannes Tzetzes's Theogony (twelfth c.), in what he denotes as "Alanic." This intriguing text has been the subject of several studies; the two most recent, Bielmeier 1993 and Testen 1994: 312-15, take into account the new reading of Hunger 1953, based on the Codex Vindobonensis of the Theogony discovered by Hunger in the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek.

On the historical phonology of Ossetic: the origin of the oblique case suffix

The principal source of this anecdote is the Byzantine author Tzetzes. But, in the usual quotations, Tzetzes's text -- taken from Joannes Philopon's commentaries to Aristotle's book On The Soul -- is rendered in a fragmented, even mutilated manner.

"As Philolaos the Pythagorean Said"

Abu al faraj had it from the poet Sa'adi (~1184-1291) who had received it, in exchange for one of his poems, from the rabbi Maimonides (1135-1204), who had bought it from the starving poet Tzetzes (~1110-1180).