Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

INTRODUCTIONTO REPOSIANUS, MODESTINUS, " CUPIDOAMANS" AND PENTADIUSThe codex Salmasianus ° —a title which recordsthe previous ownership of Claude de Saumaise—isthe chief authority for the surviving poems by threeauthors of the third century here selected from it—Reposianus, Modestinus and Pentadius, with theadditional piece Cupido Amans by an unknown hand.The codex represents, though imperfectly, theextensive and varied Anthologia Latina compiled frompoets of different periods, originally in twenty-fourbooks, at Carthage in the time of the Vandal kingsabout A.D. 532. Owing to the disappearance of thefirst eleven quaternions, half-a-dozen books at thebeginning are lost except in so far as the missingcontents are represented by codex Leid. Voss.Q. 86 [" V "], by codex Paris. 8071 (or Thuaneus," T "), both of the ninth century, and by otherMSS.^ The 182 hexameters by Reposianus on theliaison between Mars and Venus depend solely onthe codex Salmasianus ; for Modestinus we havethe additional authority of T ; and for Pentadiuswe have V as well as S and T.Reposianus' theme is the discovery of the intrigue•^It is also the manuscript for Florus' pooms, see p. 424." See Baehrens' prolegomena P.L.M. IV. pp. 3-54 ; Buechelerand Riese, Anth. Lat. I. i, praefatio, pp. xii. sqq.