CRINAGORAS

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CRINAGORAS , of Mytilene,

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

epigrammatist, flourished during the reign of

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e.
venerable
- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ.
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

(

Strabo

born
- BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)
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born
- BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)
c. 63 n.c.)

xiii. p. 6r7). A number of epigrams appear under his name in the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Anthology

ANTHOLOGY

. From

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

discovered at Mytilene, he appears to have been one of the ambassadors sent from that

city

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

Rome

ROME
ROME (Roma)

in 45 and 26 B.C.
The epigrams have been edited by M. Rubensohn (1888).

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