DOLIGATE

EPIGRAMMATISTS:

A SELECTION FROM

THE EPIGRAMMATIC LITERATURE OF ANCIENT,

MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN TIMES.

With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and au
Introduction.

BY

THE REV. HENRY PHILIP DODD, M.A.,

OF PEMBROKE College, OXFORD.

Second EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1875.

1875

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS.

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS, B.C. 690-A.D. 530

ANCIENT LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS, B.C. 54—A.D. 370.

ARABIAN EPIGRAMMATISTS, A.D. 719—A.D. 988.

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LATIN EPIGRAMMATISTS,

A.D. 1265-A.D. 1678

MODERN EPIGRAMMATISTS, A.D. 1480-A D. 18-

xiii

1

69

95

101

166

INDEX OF AUTHORS WHOSE WORKS ARE QUOTED IN THE NOTES

AND ILLUSTRATIONS

660

INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF THE EPIGRAMS

664