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This page collects the epigrams preserved in the Greek Anthology under the name of Diotimus. The manuscript headings connect the poet or poets of this name with Athens, Miletus and Adramyttium, and little is known of his life beyond a Hellenistic date. The poems include dedications to Artemis, epitaphs and a poem on a bronze statue of Artemis; a love epigram (AP 12.36) is headed in the manuscripts with another poet's name.
The best-known of these poems (AP 7.173) pictures cattle coming home through the snow without their herdsman, who has died, a small scene of great pathos. The epigrams show the Hellenistic refinement of the short elegiac poem and its interest in everyday life, rural scenes and personal emotion.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: AP 6.267, 6.358, 7.173, 7.227, 7.475, 7.733, 12.36; APl 158). 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).