Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3876
(formerly typ/1970)

Ζῇ Βασίλειος καὶ θανῶν ἐν Κυρίῳ
Ζῇ καὶ παρ' ἡμῖν ὡς λαλῶν ἐκ τῶν βίβλων.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Christophoros of Mytilene < Lesbos < Greece - PBW: Christophoros/13102/
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Basil lives and dies in the Lord. And for us he lives by speaking from his books.
Language
English
Source(s)
A. Marava-Chatzinikolaou, C. Toufexi-Paschou, 1997, Catalogue of the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts of the National Library of Greece. Homilies of the Church Fathers and Menologia 9th-12th Century (vol. 3), Athens: 204
Bibliography

Bibliography category to be determined
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Lotte van Olmen

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 282: "Christoph. Mytilenaeus, In s. Basilium ep. Caesar. (Ian. 1)"
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