HERMESIANAX  , of See also:

• COLOPHON

Colophon, elegiac poet of the Alexandrian school, flourished about 330 B.C . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORK

work was a poem in three books, dedicated to his See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress Leontion . Of this poem a fragment of about one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred lines has been preserved by See also:

• ATHENAEUS

Athenaeus (xiii . 597) . Plaintive in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone, it enumerates instances, mythological and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical, of the irresistible See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of love . Hermesianax, whose See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is characterized by alternate force and tenderness, was exceedingly popular in his own times, and was highly esteemed even in the Augustan See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . Many See also:

• SEPARATE

separate See also:

• EDITIONS

editions have been published of the fragment, the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of which is in a very unsatisfactory See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition: by F . W . See also:

• SCHNEIDEWIN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1810—1856)

Schneidewin (1838), J . See also:

• BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ballium by some, and derived by others from the Fr. baille, a corruption of bataille, because there the soldiers were drilled in battle array)
• BAILEY, NATHAN
• BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902)
• BAILEY, SAMUEL (1791-1870)

Bailey (1839, with notes, glossary, and Latin and See also:

• ENGLISH

English versions), and others; R . Schulze 's Quaestiones Hermesianacteae (1858), contains an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• LIFE

life and writings of the poet and a See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section on the identity of Leontion .