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Symphosius
Caelius Firmianus Symphosius (sometimes, in older scholarship and less properly, Symposius) was the author of the ''Aenigmata'', an influential collection of 100 Latin riddles, probably from the late antique period.
==The riddles==
The riddles themselves, written in tercets of hexameters, are of elegant Latinity, leading some to date them as early as the 2nd century (they were even attributed to Lactantius, and identified with his ''Symposium'', but this view is that of a single 18th-century editor, and is not generally accepted). The prevailing view today is that they were probably composed in the 4th or 5th century. The author's brief preface states that they were written to form part of the entertainment at the Saturnalia, but this is a literary convention, and the passage may not even have been original.〔Archer Taylor, ''The Literary Riddle before 1600'' (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), p. 54).〕
One example of one of Symphosius's riddles is his ''Harundo'' ('reed'):
: Dulcis amica ripae, semper uicina profundis,
: Suaue cano Musis; nigro perfusa colore,
: Nuntia sum linguae digitis signata magistris.
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: Sweet darling of the banks, always close to the depths, sweetly I
: sing for the Muses; when drenched with black, I am the tongue’s
: messenger by guiding fingers pressed.〔Fr. Glorie (ed.), ''Variae collectiones aenignmatvm Merovingicae aetatis (pars altera)'', Corpvs Christianorvm, Series Latina, 133a (Turnholt: Brepols, 1968), p. 623.〕
Another is ''Echo'':
: Virgo modesta nimis legem bene seruo pudoris;
: Ore procax non sum, nec sum temeraria linguae;
: Vltro nolo loqui, sed do responsa loquenti.
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: A modest maid, too well I observe the law of modesty;
: I am not pert in speech nor rash of tongue;
: of my own accord I will not speak, but I answer him who speaks.〔Fr. Glorie (ed.), ''Variae collectiones aenignmatvm Merovingicae aetatis (pars altera)'', Corpvs Christianorvm, Series Latina, 133a (Turnholt: Brepols, 1968), p. 719 (no. 98).〕
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