Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4841
(formerly typ/2897)

	Ἐκκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις καὶ τοῖς τρόποις
	ὁ νοῦς ὁ λεπτὸς τῶν νοημάτων κράτος
	ὁ Γρηγόριος ἡ θάλαττα τῶν λόγων
	καθαγιάζων νοῦν, ψυχήν, σῶμα, φρένας
	τοῖς ἐνθέοις ῥήμασιν αὐτοῦ πανσόφως
	σοφοῦ σοφίζων Σολομῶντος τοὺς λόγους.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ecclesiast Gregory of Agrigentum < Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy (6th c.) (episkopos of Agrigentum < Sicily < Southern Italy < Italy) Gregory of Nyssa (saint) (4th c.) (episkopos of Nyssa < Cappadocia)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Comment	A poem on a commentary on Ecclesiastes by Metrophanes, Metropolitan of Smyrna, falsely ascribed to Gregory of Nyssa.
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined J. Migne, 1863, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 98), Paris: 729
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[21422] ἐκκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις καὶ τοῖς τρόποις [14th-15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 57 [10th c.] (f. 241r) (6 verses) [23946] (...)κκλησιάζει τοῖς λόγοις κ(αί) τοῖς τρόποις [13th-14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Casanatense 198 [13th-14th c.] (f. 94r) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 208: "In s. Gregorium ep. Agrigentinum"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.