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Tymnes (poet)

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Tymnes (Greek: Τύμνης) was an epigrammatic poet, whose epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager, but respecting whose exact date we have no further evidence; for the grounds on which Reiske supposes that he was a Cretan, and that he was contemporary with Meleager, are very slight. There are seven of his epigrams in the Greek Anthology.

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  • Τῇδε τὸν ἐκ Μελίτης ἀργὸν κύνα φησὶν ὁ πέτρος
      ἴσχειν, Εὐμήλου πιστότατον φύλακα.
    Ταῦρόν μιν καλέεσκον, ὅτ᾿ ἦν ἔτι· νῦν δὲ τὸ κείνου
      φθέγμα σιωπηραὶ νυκτὸς ἔχουσιν ὁδοί.
    • He came from Malta, and Eumelus says
      He had no better dog in all his days.
      We called him Bull; he went into the dark.
      Along those roads we cannot hear him bark.
    • Anthologia Palatina, vii, 211; "A Maltese Dog", as translated by Edmund Blunden, Halfway House (R. Cobden Sanderson, Ltd., 1932)
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