The Greek Anthology (Book 1: Christian Epigrams. Book 2: Christodorus of Thebes in Egypt. Book 3: The Cyzicene Epigrams. Book 4: The Proems of the Different Anthologies. Book 5: The Amatory Epigrams. Book 6: The Dedicatory Epigrams) [vol. 1] 0674990749, 9780674990746

Citation preview

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIHUARY EDITED ny B.

I

LAPPS, Pu.D., LL.D.

T. B.

PAGE,

LiiT.U.

W.

II.

D.

HOUSE,

THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY I

LiiT.D.

THE (iREEK ANTHOLOGY. Volume

II.

SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS. THE EPIGRAMS OF SAIXT GREGORY THE

_

THEOLOGIAN. Volume

III.

THE DECLAMATORY EPIGRAMS. VOLUMK

THE

HORTATORY

IV.

AND

EPIGRAMS. THE CONVIVIAL AND GRAMS.

ADMONITORY

SATIRICAL

EPI-

STRATO'S MUSA PUERILIS. Volume

V.

EPIGRAMS IN VARIOUS METRES. ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS, RIDDLES, ORACLES. MISCELLANEA. EPIGRAMS OF THE PLANUDEAN ANTHOLOGY NOT IN THE PALATINE MANUSCRIPT.

//^y/t>/A

'-

^

^

THE GREEK

ANTHOLOGY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

W.

R.

IN FIVE

PATON

VOLUMES I

LONDON

:

NEW YORK

WILLIAM HEINEMANN G. P. PUTNAM S SONS :

MCMXX

5 4-S^

-.

V

First printed 1916.

Puprinted 1920.

PREFACE The

drew

the Stephanus, or Wreath, of

(1)

:

the beginning of the

Meleager, collected in

century

b.c.

by

all

that

no poems

except his own.^ to

own

classical

age,

far as

(as

and

pferiod of

b.c.^

i.e.

Greek

his collection

we know)

It consists of

centuries

third

most worthy of preserva-

is

Meleager was a quite unique

tion in these pages.

personality in his

Augustus.

The

spirit of

Italy,

com-

of that age,

poems of the seventh

of

all

literature.

phanus of Philippus, made probably descended on

first

master of the elegiac epigram

this

and comprising

]irises

He

Cephalas.

from three older Anthologies of widely

date

different

is

Heidelberg, was composed in

century by Constantine

chiefly

it

unique manuscript of the

the

Library at

Palatine

the tenth

because

Antliology, so called

Palatine

contained only in

the (2)

great

The

or

Ste-

in the reign of

poesy had in the interval

rather than

on Greece, and

Roman poets, such as Crinagoras of Mytilene, arc those who please the most. (3) The Cycle of Agathias, made in the age of Justinian and here the most

comprising strictly contemporary work. ^

Antipater of Sidon

is

however

Tlicre

his coiitemporary.

is

PREFACE inucli

tenderness and beauty in

many

of the poems,

but the writers wrote in a language which they did not command, but by which they were commanded, as all

who

try to write ancient

Greek

are.

Cephalas included also in addition to the poems

drawn from these main sources

:

(1) a certain

number

of epigrams derived from well-known authors and a

few copied from stones

;

(2) the Miisa

Puerilis of

Strato (Book XII), a collection on a special subject

made

at

an uncertain date ^

;

(3) a collection of

Love

poems largely by Rufinus (beginning of Book V) (1)

the epigrams of the Alexandrian Palladas

century

Book

V

a.d.).^

At the beginning

onwards)

I try to indicate

due to each source.

what

is

certainly

In Book IV will be found the

proems of the three chief sources that above.

(fifth

of each book (from

I

mention

Books I-III explain themselves.

In the twelfth or thirteenth of astounding industry,

century, a

Maximus Planudes,

scholar to

whom

learning owes a heavy debt, rearranged and revised

the work of Cephalas and to him alone

we owe

1 For the sources of tliis book and also of the satirical epigrams of Book XI see the special prefaces to these

books. .Some at least of these seem to have been incorporated It is not neces'^ary to mention l)y Agathias in hi^ Cycle. here matter included in the Palatine MS. but not reproduced in the printed texts. •^

PREFACE epigrams hcvc printed as

the preservation of the

an appendix (Book XVI), derived, no doubt, chiefly from a

now

taining

epigrams on works of

book of

lost

among

matter of dispute believe

Anthology con-

Ceplialas'

may be

It

art.

scholars, but

I

a

do not

myself that he had any text before him

which was

better

tradition of the

than,

or

independent

Palatine Manuscript.

I

of,

the

therefore

always follow, as strictly as possible, this tradition. In Smitii's a

IViographical

good account

is

Anthology, and readers bettQj*

Did ion aril, under Planudes,

given

the

of

may

liistory

consult

and more recent account

is

this.

of

the

A

still

Mr. Mackail's in

the Introduction to his Select Epigraois from the Greek Anthologii.

A

word should, perhaps, be

ment of the epigrams Agathias in his proem of the Epigrams

:

said as to the arrange-

in the three principal sources.

gives us his

own

(G)

Amatory,

cation order.

that

as

(7)

Convivial

;

i.e.

(.^),

of

(5) Satirical,

the rame

classifi-

that of Cephalas, but not in the same

The

MS. tells us Wreath was not arranged under

Scholiast of the Palatine

Meleager's

subjects at

On Works

(1) Dedicatory, (2)

Art, (3) Sepulchral, (4) Declamatory

classification

all

but alphabetically

(i.e.

in tlie alpha-

betical order of the first letters of the poems),

and

PREFACE we know

that Philippus'

Wreath was

the longer fragments of

all

it

so arranged, as

retain

order.

this

Curiously enough there are very few traces of such

an order in the fragments of Meleager's Wreath,

none

in the present volume.

This

a fact

is

I will

not attempt to explain.

would beg any

I

possible, but improbable, reader

who

desires to peruse the

read

first

Anthology as a whole, to

the epigrams of Meleager's Stephanus, then

those of that of PhiHppus, and finally the Byzantine

poems.

In the intervals the iron hand of History

had entirely recast and changed the language of Greece, and

spirit

and the

much misunderstanding

has been caused by people quoting anything from the "Greek Anthology" as specifically "Greek."

have to deal with three ages almost ated

"as

the

Roman

conquest, the Saxon

and the Norman conquest of England. that the

poems of

all

We

widely separ-

as

conquest, It is true

the epochs are written in a

language that professes to be one, but this

is

only

due to the consciousness of the learned Greeks, a consciousness

we

still

respect in

them

the glorious language of old Greece

to-day, that is

their im-

perishable heritage, a heritage that the corruption

of the ages should not be peraiitted to

As regards

tlie

Greek text

in

defile.

Books I-VII and

PREFACE IX, which had the advantiige of being edited by Stiidtiniiller (the

Teubner

text),

I

do not give

tlie

sources of such changes from the long standard text of Diibner (the Didot text) as exce})t in cases

to

Stadtmiiller's

made

previously

formation

is

of his life

and

in the

edition,

are

in wliich all

cited

and

in

fit

to

make,

was cut short by

his

conjectures

which

given about the tradition.

full

in-

This work

lamented death,

remaining books, though through the

kindness of the Loeb Library of consulting the shall not

think

I

where these sources are subsequent-

I

have the advantage

facsimile of the Palatine MS.,

have that of his learned

aid.

W.

R.

PATON.

I

CONTENTS PACK

^

PREFACE A

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT BOOKS CONTAINING VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GREEK ^iii

ANTHOLOGY BOOK I.— CHRISTIAN EPIGRAMS BOOK II.— CHRISTODORUS OF THEBES IN EGYPT

1

....

BOOK III.— THE GYZICENE EPIGRAMS

57 'J*^

— THE PROEMS OF THE DIFFERENT ANTHOLOGIES — THE AMATORY EPIGRAMS

BOOK

IV.

100

BOOK

V.

127

BOOK

VI.

— THE

297

DEDICATORY EPIGRAMS

49.S

GENERAL INDEX INDEX OF AUTHOP.S INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME

.

,

.

498

Tl

A CHROXOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMrORTANT BOOKiS COXTAIXINU VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM

THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY 1806.

Tm7i.^lation.s, chiefly

[By R. Bland 1S13. Collections

from the Greek Anthology, H. Merivale.]

etc.

ilnd J.

from

the

Greek Anthology and

from

the

Pastoral, Elegiac and Dramatic Poets of Greece. By R. Blaud and others. [Many versions by J. H. Merivale.] 1833,

A new [Many

By J. H. Merivale. edition. by C. Merivale.]

versions

of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome. By various translators. Edited by William Peter. Philadelphia.

1847. Specimens

1849. Anthologia

Polyglotta.

various

A

languages,

selection eliiefly

of

from

versions

the

in

Greek

Anthology. By H. Wellesley. [Wellesley was only the editor and author of some of the versions.] 1852.

The Greek Anthology, as selected for the use of Westminster, Eton and other Public Schools. Literally translated into English prose, chiefly by G. Burges. To which are added metrical versions, etc.

[Bohn's Classics.]

and Explanatory. Translated by MajorRobert Guthrie ^lacGregor. [MacGregor, an Anglo-Indian soldier, produced advance instalments, as S/)erimens of Greek Anthology [1855] and Epita)>hs from the Greek Anthology [1857J. His versions are rather dull, but close to the Greek.]

[1864]. Greek Anthology, irifh Xofe-^ Critical

xiii

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST and Ejnijrams.

Chiefly from the Greek AnRichard Garnett. [The Epigrams were reprinted in 1892, as A Chaplel from the Greek Anthology.

1869. Idylls

thology.

Bn'

'\

1871. Miscellanies

by

Selected

John, Addington Symonds, M.D. and edited, with an introductory

memoir, by his son.

By John Addington 1873-6. Studies oj the Greek Poets. Sj'monds [the younger]. Chapter xxii. in vol. ii. deals with [Ed. 3, 1893. the Anthology, and contains many versions by the author, his father, and others.] 1878.

Chrysanthema gathered from

W. M.

Hardinge.

the

Greek Anthology.

By

The Nineteenth Century,

November, pp. 869-888. 1881.

Amaranth and Asphodel. Songs from the Greek Antliology. ^y Alfred Joshua Butler. [The ti'anslator is to be distinguished from the late Arthur J. Butler.]

1883.

Love ill Idleness : a volume of Poems. [By H. C. Beeching (by who7ii the majority of versions from the Anthologv are contributed), The J. B. B. Nicholls, and J. 'W. Mackail. book was reprinted in part as Love's Looking Glass, in 1891, and Dean Beeching's ver.'^ions are reprinted, revised, in his In a Garden, 1895.]

1888.

Grass

of

Parnassus,

Rhymes Old ami New.

By

Andrew Lang. [Second edition, 1892, with additions.] [1889].

from the Greek Anthology. Graham R. Thomson.

Selections

Edited by

Not ver}' well [In the " Canterbury Poets " series. edited, but contains many good versions.] 1890. Fifty

[1S91.]

xiv

Poems of Mdeager. W. Headlam.

From

With a

translation

by

Translations into verse the Garden of Hellas. from the Greek Anthology. By Lilla C. Perry.

OF VEUSK TRANSLATIONS Antholoffine Groicne Erotica.

The

T^ove

l'2j)i;,'r;uns

of

Book V. of the Pa/aline Aufholo'jt/, edited, and partly rendered into English verse, by W. R. Pat oil.

An

Echo of Greek

Sonrj.

Englished by

W. H.

D.

Rouse. Bose

Leaves

from

Philnstj-atus

and

other

Pociwi.

Written by Percy Osborn. Paraphrases and Translations from the Earl of Cromer.

A

the

Greek.

By

Book of Greek Verse. By Walter Hea'llam. [Translations from and into Greek.]

Poems from

the Greek Anthoh TOV vaov TOV ayiov fxdpTvpo