Tymnes (poet)

Tymnes (Greek: Τύμνης) was an epigrammatic poet, whose epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager, but respecting whose exact date we have no further evidence; for the grounds on which Reiske supposes that he was a Cretan, and that he was contemporary with Meleager, are very slight. There are seven of his epigrams in the Greek Anthology.

Quotes

• Τῇδε τὸν ἐκ Μελίτης ἀργὸν κύνα φησὶν ὁ πέτρος
    ἴσχειν, Εὐμήλου πιστότατον φύλακα.
  Ταῦρόν μιν καλέεσκον, ὅτ᾿ ἦν ἔτι· νῦν δὲ τὸ κείνου
    φθέγμα σιωπηραὶ νυκτὸς ἔχουσιν ὁδοί.
  • He came from Malta, and Eumelus says
    He had no better dog in all his days.
    We called him Bull; he went into the dark.
    Along those roads we cannot hear him bark.
  • Anthologia Palatina, vii, 211; "A Maltese Dog", as translated by Edmund Blunden, Halfway House (R. Cobden Sanderson, Ltd., 1932)