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HERMESIANAX

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMESIANAX , of See also:

Colophon, elegiac poet of the Alexandrian school, flourished about 330 B.C. His See also:chief See also:work was a poem in three books, dedicated to his See also:mistress Leontion. Of this poem a fragment of about one See also:hundred lines has been preserved by See also:Athenaeus (xiii. 597). Plaintive in See also:tone, it enumerates instances, mythological and See also:historical, of the irresistible See also:power of love. Hermesianax, whose See also:style is characterized by alternate force and tenderness, was exceedingly popular in his own times, and was highly esteemed even in the Augustan See also:period. Many See also:separate See also:editions have been published of the fragment, the See also:text of which is in a very unsatisfactory See also:condition: by F. W. See also:Schneidewin (1838), J. See also:Bailey (1839, with notes, glossary, and Latin and See also:English versions), and others; R. Schulze 's Quaestiones Hermesianacteae (1858), contains an See also:account of the See also:life and writings of the poet and a See also:section on the identity of Leontion.

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