Life is short,
and craft long,
opportunity fleeting,
Hippocrates of Coos
This is written on the codex (book) held by the depicted "Byzantine Hippocrates"
: Byzantine miniature belonging to a codex of Alexios Apokaufkos, admiral (Megas Doux) of the Byzantine fleet in the 14th century. The codex contains all the works of Hippocrates.
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