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).