Symphosius The Aenigmata : An Introduction, Text and Commentary

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Symphosius The Aenigmata : An Introduction, Text and CommentaryThe post classical compilation known to modern scholarship as the Latin Anthology contains a collection of a hundred riddles, each consisting of three hexameters and preceded by a lemma. It would seem from the preface to this collection that they were composed extempore at a dinner to celebrate the Roman Saturnalia. The work was to have a defining influence on later collections of riddles; yet its title (probably the Aenigmata) has been debated, and

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