Ancient Greek & Roman

Ignatius

10th century AD (?) (Paton’s date)


Ignatius is one of the Byzantine ecclesiastical writers whose epitaphs and verses are preserved in the Greek Anthology. Paton’s Index of Authors dates him, with a query, to the 10th century AD.

This archive carries the 4 epigrams ascribed to the poet in the fifth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XV: 29, 30, 31, 39.

  1. Book XV, 29
  2. Book XV, 30: On the Monk Paul
  3. Book XV, 31: On Samuel, Deacon of the Great Church
  4. Book XV, 39: On his own Work

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