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SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
By J.

W. Mackail
First Published 1890 by Longmans, Green, and Co.
Etext prepared by John Bickers, [email protected]

and Dagny,
[email protected]

SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY

EDITED WITH A REVISED TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND
NOTES
BY
J. W. MACKAIL
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This book was published in 1890 by Longmans, Green, and Co.,
London; and New York: 15 East 16th Street.
The epigrams in the book are given both in Greek and in English. This
text includes only the English. Where Greek is present in short citations,
it has been given here in transliterated form and marked with brackets.
A chapter of Notes on the translations has also been omitted.
{eti pou proima leuxoia}
Meleager in /Anth.
Pal./ iv. 1.

Dim now and soil'd,
Like the soil'd tissue of white violets
Left, freshly gather'd, on their native
bank.
M . Arnold, /Sohrab
and Rustum/.
PREFACE
The purpose of this book is to present a complete collection, subject to

certain definitions and exceptions which will be mentioned later, of all
the best extant Greek Epigrams. Although many epigrams not given
here have in different ways a special interest of their own, none, it is
hoped, have been excluded which are of the first excellence in any style.
But, while it would be easy to agree on three-fourths of the matter to be
included in such a scope, perhaps hardly any two persons would be in
exact accordance with regard to the rest; with many pieces which lie on
the border line of excellence, the decision must be made on a balance
of very slight considerations, and becomes in the end one rather of
personal taste than of any fixed principle.
For the Greek Anthology proper, use has chiefly been made of the two
great works of Jacobs, which have not yet been superseded by any
more definitive edition: /Anthologia Graeca sive Poetarum Graecorum
lusus ex recensione Brunckii; indices et commentarium adiecit
Friedericus Iacobs/ (Leipzig, 1794-1814: four volumes of text and nine
of indices, prolegomena, commentary, and appendices), and
/Anthologia Graeca ad fidem codicis olim Palatini nunc Parisini ex
apographo Gothano edita; curavit epigrammata in Codice Palatino