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[Translations from the Greek Anthology]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt25
    • Uniform Title: [Translations from the Greek Anthology] [e-text]
    • First Line: Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum, [etc.]
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814 and 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 170-178 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 332-337 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Thirteen small pieces, subsumed under the work title [Translations from the Greek Anthology], presumably written late in Gray's Latin period, after his return from the Continent in 1742. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 94-97, except nos. [I] and [XII], first published in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 295. No. [VI] was first published as "Nymph offering a Statue of herself to Venus" and beginning "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam; formosias, ipsa". First published complete and in Gray's order in Bradshaw (ed.), Poetical Works (1891), 168-172.

    13 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0177 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[I] From the Greek"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 149, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0178 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[II] From the Greek of Antiphilus Byzantius In Medeae Imaginem, Nobile Timomachi Opus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 150, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0179 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[III] Imitation of the Greek; of Paul Silentiarius. In Bacchae Furentis Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 151, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0180 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IV] From the Greek, of Posidippus. In Alexandrum, AEre Effictum"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 152, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0181 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[V] From the Greek. [Anonymous.] In Niobes Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 153, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0182 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VI] From the Greek, of Lucian, offering a Statue of herself to Venus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 154, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, the first line altered from "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam: formosius ipsâ" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0183 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VII] From the Greek of Statyllius Flaccus. In Amorem dormientem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 155, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0184 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VIII] From a Fragment of Plato"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 156, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0185 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IX] From the Greek of Marianus. In Fontem aquae calidae"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 157, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0186 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[X] From Lucillius"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 158, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0187 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XI] Imitated from the Greek of Posidippus. Ad Amorem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 159, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0188 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XII] . . . . of Bassus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 160, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "...Of Bassus", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0189 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XIII] . . . . of Rufinus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 161, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Of Rufinus...", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

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