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THE CiREEK ANTHOLOGY III

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THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W. R. PA TON

IN FIVE

VOLUMES III

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WILLIAM HEINEMANN G. P. PUTNAM S SONS :

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CONTENTS BOOK

IX.

— THE

DECLAMATORY EPICRAMS

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GENERAL INDEX INDEX OF AUTHORS INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME

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GREEK ANTHOLOGY BOOK IX THE DECLAMATORY AND DESCRIPTIVE EPIGRAMS This book, as we should naturally expect, is especially rich in epigrams from the Stephanus of Philippus, the rhetorical style of epigram having been in vogue during the There are several quite period covered by that collection. long series from this source, retaining the alphabetical order which they were arranged, Nos. 215-312, 403-423, 541It is correspondingly poor in poems from Meleager s Stephanus (Nos. 313-338). It contains a good deal of the Alexandrian Palladas, a contemporary of Hypatia, most of The latter part, from wliich we could well dispense with. No. 582 07iwards, consists mostly of real or pretended inscriptions on works of art or buildings, many quite unworthy of preservation, but some, especially those on baths, quite in

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