Parmenion was a

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ian epigrammatic poet, whose verses were included in the collection of

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; whence it is probable that he flourished in, or shortly before, the time of

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included fourteen of his epigrams in his ''Analecta'', and one more in the ''Lectiones''.

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also attributed an anonymous epigram (No. cxxi.) to him, on the ground of the superscription ''Parmenontos'' in the

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, but that is the name, not of the author of the epigram, but of the victor who dedicated the statue to which it forms the inscription, as is clear from the epigram itself.comp. Brunck, ''Led.'' p. 265 ; Jacobs, ''Animadv. in Anth. Graec.'' vol. iii. pt. i. p. 356 The epigrams of Parmenion are characterized by brevity, which he himself declares (Ep. 1) that he aimed at.

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* {{Authority control Ancient Macedonian poets Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology Roman-era Macedonians 1st-century BC Greek poets