Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3377
(formerly typ/1515)

	Ἄνθρωπε, συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον,
	καὶ μηδὲν ἀμφίβαλλε τὸ πρᾶγμα βλέπων.
	Τὰς γὰρ φύσεις ἤμειψεν ὁ κτίστης Λόγος,
	σαρκὸς μετασχὼν καὶ Θεὸς μείνας πάλιν.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Manuel Philes (1275-1345) - PLP: XII.29817
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 245 E. Miller, 1857, Manuelis Philae Carmina (vol. 2), Amsterdam: 348 I. Sakkelion, 1890, Πατμιακὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, Athens: 28
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[24428] Ἄνθρωπε συστάλιθι πιστεύσας μόνον [1326] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 105 [August 1326] (f. 252v) (4 verses) [19261] Ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόν(ον) [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 12 [15th c.] (f. 205v) (4 verses) [26031] ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 554 [13th c.] (f. 60r) (4 verses) [23945] Ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [1326-1375] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 43 [1326-1375] (f. 38v) (4 verses) [21060] Ἄνθρωπε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [14th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 37 [13th c.] () (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 55: "Manuel Philes, In Greg. Nazianzeni orationem 38 in Theophania"
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