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Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta (now lost) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia. Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the ...
In Book X of his Epigrams, composed between 95 and 98, he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born during March 38, 39, 40 or 41 AD (Mart. 10. 24. 1), [3] under Caligula or Claudius. Martial's name seems to imply that he was born a Roman citizen.
Julia Balbilla (Greek: Ἰουλία Βαλβίλλα, AD 72 – after AD 130) was a Roman noble woman and poet. [1] Whilst in Thebes, touring Egypt as part of the imperial court of Hadrian, she inscribed three epigrams which have survived. [2]
From Book IV of the Planudean Anthology, Epigrams on monuments, statues, etc. Cypris, seeing Cypris in Cnidus, said, "Alas! alas! where did Praxiteles see me naked?" "Cypris" refers to Aphrodite. This epigrams is considered anonymous by the Paton edition of the Greek Anthology, but J.M. Edmonds considers spurious the previous two on the same ...
All of Cornificia's work has been lost. [1] Her reputation as a poet is based chiefly on the 4th century Chronicle of St Jerome (347–420 AD).In writing of her brother Cornificius, Jerome says: "Huius soror Cornificia, cuius insignia extant epigrammata" (His sister was Cornificia, whose distinguished epigrams survive). [3]
Lesbia is mentioned by name in 13 poems (5, 7, 43, 51 and 58 in the polymetra, and 72, 75, 79, 83, 86, 87, 92, and 107 in the elegiac epigrams); but it is usually assumed that she is referred to in several others, for example as meae puellae 'of my girl' in 2, 3, 11, 13; puella 'girl' in 8 and 36; mulier mea 'my woman' in 70; mea vita 'my life ...
Leonidas informs us that he was born on the banks of the Nile, [3] whence he went to Rome, [4] and there taught grammar for a long time without attracting any notice, but ultimately he became very popular, and obtained the patronage of the imperial family. [5]
In these epigrams, Crinagoras blames himself for the hanging of wealthy patrons and several epigrams are small presents to children of his Roman noble friends. He sent an epigram addressed to Augustus’ nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus , which with the epigram had a copy of the poems written by Greek poet Callimachus .