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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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INTRODUCTION TOon a bird may be somewhat less confidently ascribedto him. Based on different manuscript authority isthe poem purporting to be translated from Greekinto <strong>Latin</strong> " a quodam Tiberiano," <strong>and</strong> in its invocationof the Supreme Being blending Orphic,Pythagorean <strong>and</strong> Platonic elements. There are,besides, a few fragments referred explicitly toTiberianus by Servius <strong>and</strong> Fulgentius.^EDITIONSM. Haupt. Ovidii Halieutica, etc. Leipzig, 1838.[Haupt first printed poem No. iv " Omnipotens. . . "] ^E. Baehrens. Unedirte lateinische Gedichte, p. 27 sqq.Leipzig, 1877.Poet. Lat. <strong>Minor</strong>es, III. pp. 263-269. Leipzig,1881.F. Buecheler <strong>and</strong> A. Paese. Anthologia <strong>Latin</strong>a, I. ii.Nos. 490, 7196, 809-810.The text here given is in the main that of Baehrens,<strong>with</strong> the chief departures indicated.SIGLUM forPoems I-III.H = codex Harleianus 3685 : saec. xv. (Containingalso various medieval verses.)" These scraps are given by Baehrens, P.L.M. III. 269, <strong>and</strong>are included in this edition.* See also L. Quicherat, Bihlioth. de Vecole des chartes, IV.p. 267 sq.55^

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