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Jeffery Michael Featherstone, Theodore Metochites’s Poems ‘To Himself’. Introduction, Text and Translation. Byzantina Vindobonensia 23. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2000. Pp. 156.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Paul Magdalino*
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University of St Andrews

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22. My italics, omitted in the translation.