Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23946
(formerly occ/7899)

	(...)κκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις κ(αί) τοῖς τρόποις·
	ὁ νοῦς ὁ λεπτὸς τῶν νοημάτων κράτος
	ὁ γρηγόριος ἡ θάλαττα τῶν λόγων·
	καθαγιάζων, νοῦν· ψυχὴν· σῶμα· φρένα·
	τοῖς ἐνθέοις ῥήμασιν αυτοῦ πανσόφως·
	σοφοῦ σοφίζων σολομῶντος τοὺς λόγους+

Type(s)	[4841] Ἐκκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις καὶ τοῖς τρόποις (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	ROME - Biblioteca Casanatense 198 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 94r
Palaeographical information	Written by the scribe of the main text. The initial of the epigram is missing.
Contextual information	This poem is the first in a series of two epigrams, which follow Metrophanes of Smyrna’s commentary on Ecclesiastes. This commentary is often attributed to Gregory of Agrigentum or to Gregory of Nyssa.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ecclesiast Gregory of Agrigentum < Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy (6th c.) (episkopos of Agrigentum < Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy) Gregory of Nyssa (saint) (4th c.) (episkopos of Nyssa < Cappadocia)
Bibliography	Primary F. Bancalari 1894, Index codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Casanatensis, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 2, 161-207: 168 C. Samberger, 1968, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 2), Leipzig: 210
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[21422] ἐκκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις καὶ τοῖς τρόποις [14th-15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 57 [10th c.] (f. 241r) (6 verses) (6/6)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Sien De Groot The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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