Ancient Greek & Roman

Gabriel the Prefect

6th century AD (age of Justinian)


Gabriel the Prefect was a high official and epigrammatist of the age of Justinian, in the sixth century AD. A portrait of a prefect named Gabriel at Byzantium is the subject of an epigram by Leontius Scholasticus in the same Book of the Anthology.

This archive carries the 1 epigram ascribed to the poet in the fifth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XVI: 208.

  1. Book XVI, 208: On Love Asleep on a Pepper-Castor

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