Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Marcus Argentarius

1st century BC/AD

Marcus Argentarius was an epigrammatist of the Garland of Philippus, writing around the turn of the era. He is best known for sharply observed love and banquet epigrams.

The epigrams here are those that Paton's first volume ascribes to him by name.

Poems (42)

  1. Book V, 16
  2. Book V, 32
  3. Book V, 63
  4. Book V, 89
  5. Book V, 102
  6. Book V, 104
  7. Book V, 110
  8. Book V, 113
  9. Book V, 116
  10. Book V, 118
  11. Book V, 127
  12. Book V, 128
  13. Book VI, 201
  14. Book VI, 248
  15. Book VI, 333: A Love Epigram misplaced
  16. Book VII, 364
  17. Book VII, 374
  18. Book VII, 384
  19. Book VII, 395
  20. Book VII, 403
  21. Book IX, 87
  22. Book IX, 161
  23. Book IX, 221
  24. Book IX, 229
  25. Book IX, 246
  26. Book IX, 270
  27. Book IX, 286
  28. Book IX, 554
  29. Book IX, 732
  30. Book X, 4
  31. Book X, 18
  32. Book XI, 26
  33. Book XI, 28
  34. Book XI, 320
  35. Love and the Scholar (Mackail)
  36. Flown Love (Mackail)
  37. Inter Minora Sidera (Mackail)
  38. To a Blackbird Singing (Mackail)
  39. The Flower of Youth (Mackail)
  40. Light Love (Mackail)
  41. Angelorum Chori (Mackail)
  42. One Event (Mackail)

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