Abbreviations
This list contains the abbreviations used in the book, including those of editions of original texts. The principal editions of epigrams are abbreviated A–B, HE, FGE, GPh, and W in references to epigrams, but follow the Harvard system (author–date) in regular citations in the footnotes. In Rodney Ast’s chapter, papyri and papyrological tools are cited according to the ‘Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets’, available at http://www.papyri.info/docs/checklist.
The abbreviations of Greek titles follow the Greek-English Lexicon edited by Liddel, Scott, and Jones (LSJ), and, wherever this is not possible, the Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD). The abbreviations of the Latin titles follow the OCD, and the abbreviations of the journals in the Bibliography L’Année philologique. Greek names are for the most part transliterated, though absolute consistency in such matters is impossible and we have used the Latinised form when it is so established that the alternative would strike the reader as odd.
| A–B | Austin, C. and Bastianini, G. (eds) (2002), Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia, Milan |
| AP | Anthologia Palatina (Palatinus Heidelbergensis Gr. 23 + Parisinus Suppl. Gr. 384) |
| APl | Anthologia Planudea (Marcianus Gr. 481) |
| Beckby | Beckby, H. (ed.) (1957–8), Anthologia Graeca, 4 vols, Munich (2nd edn 1965 (vols 1–2) and 1968 (vols 3–4)) |
| Colonna | Colonna, A. (ed.) (1951), Himerii declamationes et orationes cum deperditarum fragmentis, Rome |
| Cougny | Cougny, E. (ed.) (1890), Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum, 3 vols, Paris |
| CPG | von Leutsch, E. L. and Schneidewin, F. G. (eds) (1839–51), Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum, 2 vols, Göttingen |
| CPR | Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vienna |
| CPR XXXIII | The Vienna Epigrams Papyrus (G 40611) |
| DELG | Chantraine, P. et al. (eds) (1968–80), Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots, 4 vols, Paris |
| E | Sylloge Euphemiana |
| F. | Floridi, L. (ed.) (2014), Lucillio: Epigrammi: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Texte und Kommentare 47), Berlin |
| FGE | Page, D. L. (ed.) (1981), Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and Other Sources, Not Included in Hellenistic Epigrams or The Garland of Philip, Cambridge |
| Fl. | Floridi, L. (ed.) (2007), Stratone di Sardi: Epigrammi: Testo critico, traduzione e commento (Hellenica 24), Alessandria |
| Fld. | Floridi, L. (ed.) (2020), Edilo: Epigrammi: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Texte und Kommentare 64), Berlin |
| Gentili–Prato | Gentili, B. and Prato, C. (eds) (1979–85), Poetarum elegiacorum testimonia et fragmenta, 2 vols, Leipzig |
| GG | Hilgard, A., Lentz A., Schneider, R., and Uhlig, G. (eds) (1867–1910), Grammatici Graeci, 4 vols, Leipzig (repr. 1965, Hildesheim) |
| GPh | Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L. (eds) (1968), The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, 2 vols, Cambridge |
| Jäkel | Jäkel, S. (ed.) (1964), Menandri Sententiae; Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis, Leipzig |
| Harder | Harder, A. (ed.) (2012), Callimachus: Aetia, 2 vols, Oxford |
| HE | Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L. (eds) (1965), The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, 2 vols, Cambridge |
| I. Portes | Bernand, A. (ed.) (1984), Les portes du désert: Recueil des inscriptions grecques d’Antinooupolis, Tentyris, Koptos, Apollonopolis Parva et Apollonopolis Magna, Paris |
| K–A | Kassel, R. and Austin, C. (eds) (1983–2001), Poetae Comici Graeci, 8 vols, Berlin |
| LGPN IV | Fraser, P. M. and Matthews, E. (eds) (2005), A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume IV: Macedonia, Thrace, Northern Regions of the Black Sea, Oxford |
| LSJ | Liddell, H. G. and Scott, R., rev. Jones, H. S. et al. (eds) (1996), A Greek-English Lexicon with a Revised Supplement, repr. of the 9th edn, Oxford (1st edn 1843) |
| Meineke | Meineke, A. (ed.) (1842), Delectus poetarum Anthologiae Graecae cum adnotatione critica: Accedunt coniectanea critica de Anthologiae Graecae locis controversis, Berlin |
| Odorico | Odorico, P. (1986), Il prato e l’ape: Il sapere sentenzioso del monaco Giovanni, Vienna |
| OLD | Glare, P. G. W. (ed.) (1968–82), Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford (2nd edn 2012) |
| P | Codex Anthologiae Palatinae (Palatinus Heidelbergensis Gr. 23 + Parisinus Suppl. Gr. 384) |
| Paton | Paton, W. R. (ed.) (trans.) (1816–18), The Greek Anthology, 5 vols (Loeb Classical Library 67, 68, 84–6), London (several reprints) |
| P. CtYBR inv. 4000 | The ‘Yale Epigram Codex’ (CtYBR: Research Libraries Information Network’s designation for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) |
| P. Mil. Vogl. | Papiri della Università degli Studi di Milano |
| RE | Pauly, A., Wissowa, G., and Kroll, W. (eds) (1894–1980), Real-Encyclopädie die classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart |
| Perry | Perry, B. E. (ed.) (1952), Aesopica: A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him or Closely Connected with the Literary Tradition that Bears his Name, Urbana, Ill. (repr. 2007) |
| Pf. | Pfeiffer, R. (ed.) (1949–53), Callimachus, vol. 1: Fragmenta, vol. 2: Hymni et epigrammata, Oxford |
| PG | Migne, J.-P. (ed.) (1857–66), Patrologiae cursus completus: Series Graeca, 161 vols, Paris |
| PMG | Page, D. L. (ed.) (1962), Poeti Melici Graeci: Alcmanis, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Simonidis, Corinnae, poetarum minorum reliquias, carmina popularia et convivialia quaeque adespota feruntur, Oxford (repr. 1967) |
| Pl | Codex Anthologiae Planudeae (Marcianus Gr. 481) |
| PLF | Lobel, E. and Page, D. (eds) (1955), Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, Oxford (2nd edn 1963) |
| P. Oxy. | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1898–), London |
| Sider | Sider, D. (ed.) (1997), The Epigrams of Philodemos: Introduction, Text, and Commentary, Oxford |
| SB | Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (1915–) |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (1923–) |
| S–M | Snell, B. and Maehler, H. (eds) (1975–80), Pindari carmina cum fragmentis, 2 vols, Leipzig |
| SGO | Merkelbach, R. and Stauber, J. (eds) (1998–2004), Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten, 5 vols, Stuttgart, Munich |
| SH | Lloyd-Jones, H. and Parsons, P. (eds) (1983), Supplementum Hellenisticum (Texte und Kommentare 11), Berlin |
| Sternbach | Sternbach, L. (ed.) (1890), Anthologiae Planudeae Appendix Barberino-Vaticana, Leipzig |
| Thesleff | Thesleff, H. (ed.) (1965), The Pythagorean Texts of the Hellenistic Period, Turku |
| TLG | Stephanus, H. (ed.) (1831–65), |
| V | Voigt, E.-M. (ed.) (1971), Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta, Amsterdam |
| W | Wilkinson, K. W. (ed.) (2012), New Epigrams of Palladas: A Fragmentary Papyrus Codex (P. CtYBR inv. 4000) (American Studies in Papyrology 52), Durham, NC |
| West (= IEG) | West, M. L. (ed.) (1989–92), Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, 2 vols, Oxford (1st edn 1971–2) |
| Y. | Ypsilanti, M. (ed.) (2018), The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene: Introduction, Text, Commentary, Oxford |
| Young | Young, D. (ed.) (1961), Theognis, Ps.-Pythagoras, Ps.-Phocylides, Chares, anonymi aulodia, fragmentum teliambicum, Leipzig (2nd edn 1971) |