grayt.ead.0001-mss.0182Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0182#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt25[Translations from the Greek Anthology]Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum, [etc.]
1814 and 1890LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 170-178 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 332-337 (with English
prose translation)
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.
mss.0182poems.lt25[VI] From the Greek, of Lucian, offering a
Statue of herself to Venus[after 1742]1autograph, revisedLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 154, 94Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
Autograph, revised, the first line altered from "Te tibi, sancta,
fero nudam: formosius ipsâ"
in Gray's