Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6972
(formerly typ/4879)

	Καππαδόκαι τὸ πάσχον, ἡ νόσος λιμὸς,
	Ἰατρὸς ἡ χεὶρ τοῦ σοφοῦ Βασιλείου·
	Τὸ φάρμακον λέβητες ἑφθῶν κυάμων,
	Ὑπηρετοῦντος θαῦμα τοῦ δεδωκότος.

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	Bibliography category to be determined D. Kalamakis 1989, Remarques critiques sur quelques épigrammes consacrées à S. Grégoire de Nazianze, in Φίλια εἰς Κωνσταντῖνον Μπόνην, Thessaloniki, 279-296: 294 E. Miller, 1857, Manuelis Philae Carmina (vol. 2), Amsterdam: 351
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[26079] Καππαδόκαι τὸ πάσχον· ἡ νόσος λιμὸς [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 554 [13th c.] (f. 89r) (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, 399: "Theod. Prodromus, In s. Basilium"
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Last modified: 2021-02-04.