Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4765
(formerly typ/2829)

	ὡς νεῖλος ἄλλος πλημυρῶν τοῖς σοῖς λόγοις,
	ὦ θεοδώρητε, τῶν Ἀχαίων τὴν πάλην
	πνίγων τὸν καλὸν πίστεως αὔξεις σπόρον.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Theodoret of Cyrrhus (393-458)
Tag(s)	Polemic Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Translation(s)	Ceu Nilus alter, redundans tuis orationibus, o Theodorete, Achaeorum errorem angens, pulcrum fidei auges semen. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 338
Comment	Anth. Cougny III 287; Cougny (1890: 338).
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[20927] ὡς νεῖλος ἄλλος, πλημμυρῶν τοῖς σοῖς λόγοις [15th c.] LONDON - British Library - Add. 10070 [15th c.] (f. 221v) (2 verses) [21332] Ὡς νεῖλος ἄλλος πλημμυρῶν τοῖς σοῖς \| λόγοις [12th-13th c.] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 487 [12th-13th c.] (f. 26r) (3 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, 902: "In Theodoretum ep. Cyrrhensem"
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