Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Paul the Silentiary

d. c. 575

Paul the Silentiary, a court official under Justinian (d. c. 575), wrote the great verse description of Hagia Sophia as well as many polished epigrams, most of them erotic.

He is one of the best represented poets of the Cycle of Agathias in Book V, and the epigrams here are those that Paton ascribes to him.

Poems (90)

  1. Book V, 217
  2. Book V, 219
  3. Book V, 221
  4. Book V, 226
  5. Book V, 228
  6. Book V, 230
  7. Book V, 232
  8. Book V, 234
  9. Book V, 236
  10. Book V, 239
  11. Book V, 241
  12. Book V, 244
  13. Book V, 246
  14. Book V, 248
  15. Book V, 250
  16. Book V, 252
  17. Book V, 254
  18. Book V, 255
  19. Book V, 256
  20. Book V, 258
  21. Book V, 259
  22. Book V, 260
  23. Book V, 262
  24. Book V, 264
  25. Book V, 266
  26. Book V, 268
  27. Book V, 270
  28. Book V, 272
  29. Book V, 274
  30. Book V, 275
  31. Book V, 279
  32. Book V, 281
  33. Book V, 283
  34. Book V, 286
  35. Book V, 288
  36. Book V, 290
  37. Book V, 291
  38. Book V, 293: Reply on the same subject to his friend Agathias
  39. Book V, 300
  40. Book V, 301
  41. Book VI, 54
  42. Book VI, 57
  43. Book VI, 64
  44. Book VI, 65
  45. Book VI, 66
  46. Book VI, 71
  47. Book VI, 75
  48. Book VI, 81
  49. Book VI, 82
  50. Book VI, 84
  51. Book VI, 168
  52. Book VII, 4: On the Same
  53. Book VII, 307
  54. Book VII, 560
  55. Book VII, 563
  56. Book VII, 588
  57. Book VII, 604
  58. Book VII, 606
  59. Book VII, 609
  60. Book IX, 396
  61. Book IX, 443
  62. Book IX, 620: On a Double Bath in which Men and Women Bathed
  63. Book IX, 651: On a High House in Constantinople
  64. Book IX, 658: On the Great Praetorium when newly decorated
  65. Book IX, 663: On a Garden by the Sea
  66. Book IX, 664: On the Same
  67. Book IX, 764: On a Mosquito Net
  68. Book IX, 765: On the Same
  69. Book IX, 770: On a Cup
  70. Book IX, 782: On a Water-clock
  71. Book X, 15
  72. Book X, 74
  73. Book X, 76
  74. Book XI, 60
  75. Book XVI, 57: On a Bacchant in Byzantium
  76. Book XVI, 77
  77. Book XVI, 78
  78. Book XVI, 118: On the Same
  79. Book XVI, 277: On a Picture of a Female Lyrist in Constantinople
  80. Book XVI, 278: On the Picture of Maria the Singer and Lyrist
  81. The Mad Lover (Mackail)
  82. Dearer Than Day (Mackail)
  83. Waiting (Mackail)
  84. Looking and Liking (Mackail)
  85. Amantium Irae (Mackail)
  86. To the Delphian Apollo (Mackail)
  87. To Apollo, with a Hunter's Bow (Mackail)
  88. The Girl's Cup (Mackail)
  89. Dimitte Mortuos (Mackail)
  90. The One Hope (Mackail)

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