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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASCLEPIADES , of See also:

Samos, epigrammatist and lyric poet, friend of See also:Theocritus, .flourished about 270 B.C. He was the earliest and most important of the convivial and erotic epigrammatists. Only a few of his compositions are actual " See also:inscriptions "; others sing the praises of the poets whom he specially admired, but the See also:majority of them are love-songs. It is doubtful whether he is the author of all the epigrams (some 40 See also:ill number) which See also:bear his name in the See also:Greek See also:Anthology. He possibly gave his name to the Asclepiadean See also:metre.

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