Philes

Philes , Manuel

(Μανουὴλ ὁ Φιλῆς). A Byzantine poet, and a native of Ephesus, was born about A.D. 1275, and died about 1340. His poem, De Animalium Proprietate, chiefly derived from Aelian, is edited with a revised text by Lehrs and Dübner in the Bucolici Graeci, forming part of Didot's Bibliotheca Graeca (Paris, 1846), and his other poems on various subjects by Wernsdorf (Leip. 1768).

Philes Philes, a Samian

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