Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6914
(formerly typ/4815)

	Παῦρα δ’ Ἰωάννου δῄεις ἱερῇ ἐνὶ βίβλῳ
	θαύματα δὴ, πολλοὺς δὲ λόγους Χριστοῖο ἄνακτος.
	Ἦν γάμος, οἰνοχόοι δ’ ἐκέρων ἐξ ὕδατος οἶνον.
	Εἶπε, καὶ υἱὸς ἄνουσος ἔην κάμνων βασιλίσκου.
	Εἶπε, λέχος δ’ ἀνάειρεν, ὃς οὐ φύγε δεσμὰ λοετροῖς.
	Πέντε δ’ ἔπειτ’ ἄρτων τέλεσεν τέρας. Ἔνθεν ὅδευσεν
	πόντον ὑπερζείοντα, καὶ ἐξεσάωσε μαθητάς.
	Τυφλὸν δ’ ἐκ γενετῆς ἰήσατο, πηλὸν ἀλείψας.
	Τέτρατον ἦμαρ ἔην καὶ Λάζαρος ἔγρετο τύμβου.
	Αὐτὰρ ὁ καὶ νεκύεσσι θάνεν, καὶ ζῶσιν ἀναστὰς
	Χριστὸς ἄναξ ἀναφανδὸν ὁμίλεεν οἷς ἑτάροισι.

Title(s)	Τοῦ αὐτοῦ θαύματα κατὰ Ἰωάννην
Text source	J. Migne, 1862, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 37), Paris: 494
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Lazaros
Tag(s)	Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Comment	The poem is transmitted within Gregory of Nazianzus' poetic corpus, as carm. I,1,23. However, in the ms. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 24, ff. 140v-141r it functions as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses	11
Occurrence(s)	[25889] Παῦρα δ’ ἰωάννου δήεις ἱερῆ ἐνὶ βίβλω [14th c.] ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan Library 24 [1291-1325] (f. 140v-141r) (11 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 606: "Greg. Nazianzenus, Miracula Christi sec. Ioannem"
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Last modified: 2022-09-28.