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Epigrams

Epigrammata · Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 360-390 · other

Greek · domain: cappadocian · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The epigrams — the poems transmitted as Book VIII of the Palatine Anthology, as the 2011 dissertation 'To ogdoo vivlio tēs Palatinēs anthologias: mia meletē tōn epigrammatōn tou Grēgoriou Nazianzēnou' documents (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nazianzus%20epigrams&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 — have one English rendering only, Thomas Drant's verse collection 'Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen' (London: Thomas Marshe, 1568; HOLLIS record and EEBO copy, https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nazianzus%20epigrams%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 digital scan at https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_epigrams-and-sentences-s_gregory-of-nazianzus_1568). The HOLLIS search 'Nazianzus epigrams' (17 records) shows that modern translation has gone into Italian ('Epitaffi; Epigrammi', 2013) and Spanish ('Epitafios; Epigramas; Cristo sufriente', 2025), with no modern English counterpart; Drant's 1568 volume renders epigrams together with the gnomic 'sentences' and is not a complete translation of the epigram corpus.

The linked scan is the 1568 English verse version (an e-text of the translation, not of the Greek). The Greek epigrams are printed with Gregory's poems in Migne PG 37-38; no separate open Greek e-text was located.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen · Thomas Drant · 1568

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1568 imprint)
bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_epigrams-and-sentences-s_gregory-of-nazianzus_1568

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Gregory of Nazianzus Epigrams — 17 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Macrina the Younger, philosopher of God
Silvas, Anna · 2008 · eng, grc
Silvas, Anna. "Macrina the Younger, philosopher of God." Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2008]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153834440203941
Epigrams : Here begynneth the epigrams
· a. 1545? · eng
"Epigrams : Here begynneth the epigrams." [London : s.n., ca. 1545?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990096432280203941
Epigrams : Here begynneth the epigrams
· a. 1545? · eng
"Epigrams : Here begynneth the epigrams." [London : s.n., ca. 1545?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99161452571103941
Epitaffi ; Epigrammi
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint · 2013 · ita
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. "Epitaffi ; Epigrammi." Roma : Città nuova, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990139892420203941
Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint · 1568 · eng
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. "Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers." Imprinted at London ... : By Thomas Marshe, 1568. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990027867950203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Epigrams” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-nazianzus-epigrammata