Anthology # | Title / incipit | Greek title / incipit | Topic |
5.129 | On a prostitute dancer | εἰς πόρνην ὀρχηστρίδα | A dancer gives the poet an erection |
10.23 | Nicetes like the breeze, when a ship has little sail up | Νικήτης ὀλίγοις μὲν ἐπὶ προτόνοισιν ἀήτης | An orator's style compared to a ship's journey |
11.29 | Send and summon her | Πέμπε, κάλει | Automedon's erectile dysfunction |
11.46 | We are human in the evening | Ἄνθρωποι δείλης | Contrast between convivial behaviour at night and hostile behaviour in the day. |
11.50 | Blessed is the one who owes nothing to anyone | Εὐδαίμων, πρῶτον μὲν ὁ μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλων | A wise man avoids marriage. |
11.319 | Bringing ten sacks of charcoal | Ἀνθρακίων δέκα μέτρα φέρων | Athens' excessive generosity with honours. |
11.324 | Accept the dinner, Phoebus | Δέξαι, Φοῖβε, τὸ δεῖπνον | Apollo complains that Arrius the priest eats all his sacrifices |
11.325 | Yesterday, I had a goat's foot for dinner | Ἐχθὲς δειπνήσας τράγεον πόδα | The poet was invited to an unsatisfactory dinner. |
11.326 | Beard and shaggy thigh hair | Πώγων, καὶ λάσιαι μηρῶν τρίχες | The beautiful youth Connichus has grown old |
11.346 | How long, Polycarpus? | Μέχρι τίνος, Πολύκαρπε | A banker is destroyed by his faithlessness |
11.361 | Mules grown old together | Ἡμίονοι σύγγηροι | Description of two old mules. |
12.34 | With coach Demetrius | Πρὸς τὸν παιδοτρίβην Δημήτριον | Demetrius' attractive students wait on him at dinner. |