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E. CAPPS, Ph.D., LL.D. T. E. PAGE, Litt.D. W, H. D. ROUSa, Lirr.D,

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II THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

Volume I. CHRISTIAN . CHRISTODORUS OF IN EGYPT. THE CYZICENB EPIGRAMS. THE PROEMS OF THE DIFFERENT AN- THOLOGIES. THE AMATORY EPIGRAMS. THE DJiDICATORY EPIGRAMS.

Volume III. THE DECLAMATORY EPIGRAMS.

Volume IV. THE HORTATORY AND ADMONITORY EPIGRAMS. THE CONVIVIAL AND SATIRICAL EPI- GRAMS. STRATO'S MU:

Volume V. EPIGRAMS IN VARIOUS METRES. ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS, RIDDLES ORACLES. ' MISCELLANEA. EPIGRAMS OF THE PLANUDEAN ANTHO- LOGY NOT IN THE PALATINE MANU- SCRIPT. THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W. R. PATON

IN FIVE VOLUMES

II

LONDON : WILLIAM HEINEMANN

NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MOMXIX First printed 1917. Reprinted 1919. CONTENTS

PAGE BOOK VII. —SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS 1

BOOK VIII. —THE EPIGRAMS OF SAINT GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN 399

GENERAL INDEX . . . , 509

INDEX OF AUTHORS INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME . . . 515

GREEK ANTHOLOGY

BOOK VII SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS

The genuine (tliose actually engraved on tomb- stones) in this collection are comparatively few in number. It would be easy to draw up a list of them, but I refrain from this, as there are too many doubtful cases. Those on celebrities are of course all poetical exercises in the form of on epitaphs, but a considerable number of those unknown the persons are doubtless the same. In order to appreciate (ireek sepulchral as it was, we should have a selection of those actually preserved on stones. Cephalas has introduced a few copied from stones (330-335, 340, 346), but Meleager, Philippus, and drew, of course, from literary and not epigraphical sources in forming their anthologies. Nothing can be less certain than the attributions to the elder poets (, Simonides, etc.) in this book: we may be sure that, while they published their lyrics, they did of occasional so that the not publish collections epigrams ; latter are attributed to them merely by hearsay and guess- work. The authorsliip of the few epigrams (some very beautiful) attributed to is now a matter of dispute, but I think we have no right to deny it, as they are very short and would have survived in memory. The attributions to later writers are doubtless in the main correct—the epigrams of being included in MSS. of his works, and derived from such a MS. and not from Meleager, who does not, curiously enough, mention him in his Proem. Here, as in Book VI, continuous portions of the three chief sources are the exception. Nos. 1-150, epigrams on of famous men (chiefly poets and philosophers), could not course comprise any such. Overlooking shorter fragments, Nos. 194-203,1 207-212, 246-273, 296-303, 314-318, 406-529, 535-541, 646-655, 707-740 are from Meleager's Wreath, 183-188, 233-240, 364-405, 622-645, 699-703 are from that of of Philippus, and 551-614 from the Cycle Agathias. Nos. 681-6S8 are by . 1 All ou animals, but in the alphabetical order of the first letters, like the fragments of Philippus' Wreath.

VOL. 11. B ANGOAOriA

z EnirPAMMATA EHITTMBIA

1.—AAKAIOT ME^SHNIOT

'Hpcocov Tov aoLhov"\(p evL TralSe^'O/u.tjpov

t]Ka')(ov, e/c ^lovaewv yp2(f)ov v(})7]vdfi6i>oi' ve/crapi S' elvoKiai '^rjpiylhe'i i'^piaavTO, Kol veKVV uKTairj dtjKav vtto aTTiXaSi, oTTi (Bertv KvSrjve koI v'lea, koI [xoOov aWcov ypcowv, ^lOaKov t epy/Mara AapTiuSeco. oX^LCTTT) vrjacov 'irovTcp "J09, otti KCKevOe ^at.7] ^iov(xd(ov darepa Kol xs^aplrcov.

2.—ANTinATPOT SIAHNIOT

Tav fxepoTTcov TleLOoOy to pue'^/a aropa, rav Xaa Moycra/9 (pOey^afievav Ke(f)a\dv, w ^eve, ^laiovLSeco aS' eXa')(ov vacriTi

' The riddle which HQmer, according to the storj^, couhl 2 GREEK ANTHOLOGY

BOOK VII SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS

L—ALCAEUS OF MESSENE 0)1

^ In Ios the boys, weaving a riddle at the bidding of the , vexed to death Homer the singer of the heroes. And the of the sea anointed him with nectar and laid him dead under the rock on he and her son the shore ; because glorified «nd the battle-din of the other heroes and the deeds of of Ithaca. Blessed among the islands in the sea is los, for small though she be, she covers the star of the Muses and Graces.

2.~ANTIPATER OF SI DON On the Same

O STRANGER, it is granted to me, this island rock of los, to hold Maeonides, the Persuader of men, the Muses. For in mighty-voiced, who sang even as the no other island but in me did he leave, when he died, the holy breath with which he told of the almighty " what did not not guess was : What we caught we left, we catch we bring," i.e. lice. 3

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5 (b vevfia KpoviSao to 7ra'yH:paTe

2 B.—AAAO

El KoX ^ai,o

iroLrjTi-jv iirecov 6€?ov"0p,i]pov e^&>.

:l—AAHAON

'Ef^aSc rr]v leprjv Ke^akrjv Kara yaia KoKinnei, avhpoiv rjpoocop Koapbrjropa, delov' OpLiiipov.

4.—nATAOT XIAENTIAPIOT

'Ei^^aSe Yliepihcov to cro(f)OV (TTOfxa, Oelov "Ofirjpov, K\€ivo

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