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The 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 almost nothing is known about its author: ques
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- Author
- Timothy John Leary, Caelius Firmianus Symphosius
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472511652
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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