Ancient Greek & Roman

Crates the Grammarian

2nd century BC (Paton’s date)


Crates the Grammarian is one of the named epigrammatists whose short poems are preserved in the Greek Anthology. Paton's Index of Authors dates the poet to the 2nd century BC. Paton distinguishes this Crates, the grammarian, from Crates the philosopher.

This archive carries the 1 epigram ascribed to the poet in the fourth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XI: 218.

  1. Book XI, 218

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