Ancient Greek & Roman

Ptolemaeus

before c. 100 BC (Paton’s date)


Ptolemaeus is one of the epigrammatists whose short poems were gathered in the Greek Anthology. Paton's index of authors gives no date for the poet. Paton's index lists the poet among the writers of Meleager's Wreath, the Garland compiled about 100 BC.

This archive carries the 1 epigram ascribed to the poet in the second volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Book VII: 314).

  1. Book VII, 314
  2. Book IX, 577
  3. Species Aeternitatis (Mackail)

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