Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

This is a test environment.

Type 3420
(formerly typ/1556)

	Αἴγυπτον ἄρδει Νεῖλος, ἀλλὰ τὴν κτίσιν
	λόγοις κατάρδει καὶ θανὼν Νεῖλος μέγας.

Title(s)	Τοῦ Μυτυληναίου
Text source	A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 420
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)	Neilos of Ankyra (saint) (4th-5th c.) Nile (river)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Translation(s)	Nilus Canopum, maior hic fonte ingeni Orbem universum et mortuus Nilus rigat. Language Latin Source(s) A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 420
Bibliography	Primary S. Eustratiades, 1960, Ἁγιολόγιον τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας, Athens: 346 E. Follieri, 1960, Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae. Α - Ζ (vol. 1), Vatican City: 54
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[19314] αἴγυπτον ἄρδει νεῖλος ἀλλὰ τὴν κτίσ(ιν) [12th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 9, Cod. 18 [12th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses) [28440] αἴγυπτον ἄρδει νεῖλος ἀλλὰ τὴν κτίσ(ιν) [12th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 9, Cod. 18 [12th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 18: "In s. Nilum asc. (Nov. 12)"
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/3420

Last modified: 2026-01-19.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.