Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6970
(formerly typ/4877)

	Ἔπαρχος εἶ, Μόδεστε, τοῖς ἄλλοις ὅλοις·
	μόνῳ δ’ ὕπαρχος τῷ σοφῷ Βασιλείῳ.
	Ἀρχὴ γὰρ αὐτῷ, καίπερ ἐξάρχειν θέλων,
	μυρμηκιᾷς δὲ, καίπερ ὡς λέων βρύχων.

Text source	E. Miller, 1857, Manuelis Philae Carmina (vol. 2), Amsterdam: 351
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Manuel Philes (1275-1345) - PLP: XII.29817
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Bibliography	Primary H. Gunthius, 1536, Cyri Theodori Prodromi epigrammata ut uetustissima, ita piissima, Basileae: κ 4v D. Kalamakis 1989, Remarques critiques sur quelques épigrammes consacrées à S. Grégoire de Nazianze, in Φίλια εἰς Κωνσταντῖνον Μπόνην, Thessaloniki, 279-296: 294
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[26077] παρχος εἶ μόδεστε τοῖς ἄλλοις ὅλοις [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 554 [13th c.] (f. 95r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola, Julián Bértola, Nina Vanhoutte The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 244: "Theod. Prodromus, In s. Basilium"
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Last modified: 2021-03-04.