Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17153
(formerly occ/279)

	+ χαρισμάτων ἄβυσσε (καὶ) ἀστὴρ λόγων·
	θαλάττιον βάτραχον εἰς χέρσον δέχου·
	πλὴν οὐχ ἁλιεῖς ἀλλ' ὁ σὸς φίλ(ος) μόνος.
	ἀνεῖλ(εν) αὐτὸν ἀργυροῦν κλώσας βρόχον.

Type(s)	[5089] Χαρισμάτων ἄβυσσε καὶ ἀστὴρ λόγων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 341 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r -- (gen.) lower part of page
Palaeographical information	Written in columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes sixteen liturgical homilies by Gregory of Nazianzus.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380988-ms/?sp=3
Bibliography	Primary J. Noret 1978, Les manuscrits sinaïtiques de Grégoire de Nazianze (1re partie), Byzantion, 48(1), 146-207: 167 Secondary K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 108
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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