Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5509
(formerly typ/3563)

	Πανδεκτικὴ μὲν ἰατροῖς κλῆσις πέλει
	θήκη γέμουσα φαρμάκων παμποικίλων,
	ἃ σαρκικῶν νέμουσι παθέων λύσιν.
	Πνευματικοῖς δ’ ἔνεστι Πανδέκτης ὅδε
	ἀλεξιφαρμάκων τε καὶ τρόπων γέμων
	εἰς ἀφανισμὸν ψυχικῶν νοσημάτων.
	Τοίνυν ἅπας πρόσελθε τῇδε τῇ βίβλῳ,
	σαρκὸς προτιμῶν τῆς ῥεούσης ἀστάτως
	ψυχὴν μένουσαν εἰς ἅπαν ἀϊδίως.

Text source	P. Lambeck (auth.); A. Kollar (ed.), 1776, Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi (vol. 3), Vienna: 350
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Konstantinos Tarsites (12th c.) - VGH: 251.G
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Antiochus of Palestine (7th c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Comment	Lambeck (1776: 350) provides the following title: ΣTIΧΟΙ.
Bibliography	Primary P. Odorico 1988, La sanzione del poeta: Antioco di S. Saba e un nuovo carme di Arsenio di Pantelleria, Byzantinoslavica, 49, 1-22: 4
Number of verses	9
Occurrence(s)	[22661] Πανδεκτικὴ μὲν ἰατροῖς κλῆσις πέλει [1129] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 89 [1129] (f. 247v) (9 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, 593: "Constant. Tarsites, In Antiochum Pandectam"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.