biography
pronunciation:
[meliayjer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.80 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek poet and epigrammatist, from Gadara, Syria. He was the author of 128 short elegiac poems, and many epigrams, contained in his anthology Stephanos (Garland). They comprise the core of the large collection of Greek writings known as the Greek Anthology. |
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