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This is a selection of fragments of Antimachus of Colophon, the epic and elegiac poet of around 400 BC, numbered after Wyss's 1936 edition. Most of its items also appear in the fuller collection of his fragments, but it adds a few pieces not found there, including a papyrus testimonium and a fragment on the river Pactolus. Like the rest of his work, these lines survive only as quotations in later grammarians, lexicographers and commentators; they touch on myth, places and, in one passage, the rigging of a ship.
Antimachus' learned diction and fondness for rare words made him a favourite source for ancient scholars, which is why so many short citations of his verse survive. These fragments give a taste of the style that later critics debated and that Hellenistic poets both admired and criticised.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Wyss (1936) frr. 57–192 (selection)). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).