Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Anonymous
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page 36 of 334 (10%)
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After the description of S. Sophia by Paulus Silentiarius, follow in
the MS. select poems of S. Gregorius. After the description by Christodorus of the statues in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus follows a collection of nineteen epigrams inscribed below carved reliefs in the temple of Apollonis, mother of Attalus and Eumenes kings of Pergamus, at Cyzicus. After the proem to the Anthology of Agathias follows another epigram of his, apparently the colophon to his collection. The book of Christian epigrams and that of poems by Christodorus of Thebes are wanting in the MS. Between the /Sepulcralia/ and /Epideictica/ is inserted a collection of 254 epigrams by S. Gregorius. John of Gaza's description of the Mappa Mundi in the winter baths is wanting in the MS. After the miscellaneous Byzantine epigrams, which form the last entry in the index, is a collection of epigrams in the Hippodrome at Constantinople. The Palatine MS. then is a copy from another lost MS. And the lost MS. itself was not the archetype of Cephalas. From a prefatory note to the /Dedicatoria/, taken in connection with the three iambic lines prefixed to the /Amatoria/, it is obvious that the /Amatoria/ formed the first section of the Anthology of Cephalas, preceded, no doubt, by the three proems of Meleager, Philippus, and Agathias as prefatory |
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