Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

MINOR LATIN POETSIVNarcissusHie est ille. suis nimium qui credidit undis,Narcissus vero dignus amore puer.cernis ab irriguo repetentem gramine ripas,ut per quas periit cernere possit aquas.VChrysocomeChrysocome gladium fugiens stringente maritotexit adulterium iudice casta reo.VIDe FemixaCrede ratem ventis, animum ne crede puellisnamque est feminea tutior unda fide,femina nulla bona est, vel, si bona contigit una,nescio quo fato est res mala facta bona.IV. ^ undis codd. : umbris Baehrens.* crescere codd. : cemere Baehrens {in not.).° The Anthologia Latina contains also two elegiac coupletson Narcissus (Baehrens, F.L.M. IV. p. 305 and p. 340); buttheir authorship is uncertain. The Tumulus Ilectoris givento Pentadius in Cabaret-Dupaty's Poetae Minores is byBaehrens assigned to Pompilianus {P.L.M. IV. p. 149), whilethe Tumulus Acidis is of uncertain authorship {P.L.M. \.p. 404).