A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

M886 PLANUDES. PLANUDES.
4. Diogenianus, Straton, and Diogenes Lac'rtius. parchment, of a quarto form, though somewhat
-Shortly after Philip, in the reign of Hadrian, the longer than it is broad, and contains 71 0 pages,
learned grammarian, DIOGENIANUS of Heracleia, without reckoning three leaves at the commencecompiled an Anthology, which is entirely lost. It ment, which are stuck together, and which are
might perhaps have been well if the same fate had also full of epigrams. The writing is by different
befallen the very polluted, though often beautiful hands. The index prefixed to the MS. and the
collection of his contemporary, STRATON of Sar- first 453 pages are in an ancient handwriting;
dis, the nature of which is sufficiently indicated then follows a later hand, up to p. 644; then again
by its title, Moeaa 7ramlcK'. About the same time an older handwriting to p. 705. The rest is by a
Diogenes Laertius collected the epigrams which are hand later than either of the others, and in the
interspersed in his lives of the philosophers, into a same writing are some additions in the other
separate book, under the title of?j 7rcap/tespo0. parts of the work, the leaves which are stuck to[DIOGENES LAERTIUS.] This collection, however, gether at the beginning, and some pages which
as containing only the poems of Diogenes himself, had been left vacant by the foimer writers. The
must rather be viewed as among the materials of numbers of the pages are added by a still later
the later Anthologies than as an Anthology in itself, hand, and the first three leaves are not included
5. Agathias Schlolasticus. —During the long pe- in the numbering. The most ancient handwriting
riod from the decline of original literature to the is supposed to be of the eleventh century. The
era when the imitative compositions of the Con- time of the others cannot be fixed with any cerstantinopolitan grammarians had reached their tainty. But not only is it thus evident that the
height, we find no more Anthologies. The next MS. was written by different persons and at difwas the Kv'tros e7rrtpaa~'T0wv of AGATHIAS SCHO- ferent times, but it is also quite clear that the
LASTICUS, who lived in the time of Justinian. It original design of the work has been materially
was divided into seven books, according to sub- altered by the successive writers. There is an
jects, the first book containing dedicatory poems; index at the beginning, which states the contents
the second, descriptions of places, statues, pic- of each book of the collection, but, as the MS.
tures, and other works of art; the third, epitaphs; now stands, its actual contents do not agree with
the fourth, poems on the various events of human this index. (The exact amount of the discrepancies
life; the fifth, satiric epigrams; the sixth, ama- is stated by Jacobs, who prints the index in his
tory; the seventh, exhortations to the enjoyment Prolegomena, p. 1xv.) The inference drawn from
of life. This was the earliest Anthology which these variations is that the present MS. is copied
was arranged according to subjects. The poems from an older one, the contents of which are repreincluded in it were those of recent writers, and sented by the index, but that the copyists have
chiefly those of Agathias himself and of his con- exercised their own judgment in the arrangement
temporaries, such as Paulus Silentiarius and Ma- of the epigrams, and in the addition of some which
cedonius. [AGATHIAS.] were not in the older MS. It may further be
6. The,Anthology of Constantinus Cephalas, or pretty safely assumed that the older MS. was the
the Palatine Anthology. -Constantinus Cephalas Anthology as compiled by Constantinus Cephalas,
appears to have lived about four centuries after the contents of which the index represents. But
Agathias, and to have flourished in the tenth even in the index itself there are discrepancies;
century, under the emperor Constantinus Porphyro- for it consists of two parts, the first of which progenitus. The labours of preceding compilers fesses to give the contents of the book, and the
may be viewed as merely supplementary to the second their arrangement; but these parts disagcree
Garland of Meleager; but the Anthology of Con- with one another, as well as with the contents of
stantinus Cephalas was an entirely new collection the MS. itself. The order given in the index is
from the preceding Anthologies and from original as follows (we give the titles in an abbreviated
sources. As has been said above [CEPHALAS] form) —
nothing is known of Constantine himself. Modern X
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scholars had never even heard his name till it was 8. ra XproT poa T6 Oi 0,Lo.
brought to light by the fortunate discovery of. il rpcs/.mesa.?). T. EpWTLc~ IC Tpca eraara.
Salmnasius. That great scholar, when a very young a. a pva07caa1aTUa.
man, visited Heidelberg about the end of the year e Tv/
1606, and there, in the library of the Electors Pa- s'.' 3e,rCTLud.
latine, he found the MS. collection of Greek epi- I rpTpear
grains, which was afterwards removed to the Ta 7rpO pE7rTlIa.
77. T- OWWrTLCa.
Vatican, with the rest of the Palatine library. 0d CaTOS p
O. t,TapadTVo0S ToO!apiavovo.
(1623), and has become celebrated under theopa a,
names of the Palatine Antholoay and the Vatican L. ala(pOWV E'TpW'V &alpopa E7riypad/rTa.
ma. &piOitmcd otal'ypKjipa ilfSlxICT'a.
Codea? of the Greek Anthologqy.* Salmasius at once a
saw that it was quite a different work from the y. y OUKpTO Kal Pr svqS Eiccipa(om.
Planudean Anthology. He collated it with We- L
Asotaci3a B3co7As. Bo'aVTv'ioVu ZvO Kal 7r4chel's edition of the latter, and copied out those
epigrams which were not contained in the latter. T
The work thus discovered soon became known Le.'pAyopiov oyi, K.T.A.
among the scholars of the day as the Antholoyia.
inedita codicis Palatini. The MS. is written on The actual contents, however, are as follows: —
Pauli Silentiarii Ecphrasis, to p. 40; S. Gregorii
i The MS. was transferred to Paris, upon the Eclogae, to p. 49; EpigSrammata Christiana, to
peace of Tolentino, in 1797; and, after the peace p. 63; Christodori Ecplhrasis, to p. 76; Ep1iyralLmof 1815, it was restored to its old home at Heidel- mata Cyzicena, to p. 81; Prooenzia Meleagri, Pihiberg, where it now lies in the University library. lippi, Agathiae, to p. 87; Amatoria, to p. 1,10;