Excerpt from Paraphrases and Translations From the Greek
I have at times amused myself by endeavouring to render into English verse some of the epigrams of the Greek Anthology, and other pieces. It may possibly amuse others to read them. I have therefore, after much hesitation, decided to publish them.
The epigrams are, with a very few exceptions, selected from Mr. Mackail's Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology. The classification and, in the great majority of cases, the title of each epigram are also borrowed from Mr. Mackail.
In making the translations from Theocritus and Moschus, I have used principally Kiessling's edition (London and Cambridge, 1829).
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