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Numerous epigrams in Elegiac metre have been preserved in the Anthology, some of them attributed to writers famous in other departments of literature, as, for instance, Plato. One exquisite stanza, rightly or wrongly attributed to him, may be quoted:—

is said to have first used the Iambic metre in personal satire, “rage armed Archi-