Ancient Greek & Roman

Simmias Grammaticus

end of the 4th century BC (Paton’s date)


Simmias Grammaticus is one of the epigrammatists whose short poems were gathered in the Greek Anthology. Paton's index of authors dates the poet to end of the 4th century BC. 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 first volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Books I–VI) (Book VI: 113).

  1. Book VI, 113
  2. Book VII, 21: On the Same
  3. Book VII, 22: On the Same
  4. Book VII, 60: On Plato
  5. Book VII, 193: Not an Epitaph
  6. Book VII, 203
  7. Book XV, 22: The Axe
  8. Sophocles (Mackail)
  9. The Tame Partridge (Mackail)

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