In Imperial Greek Poetry
In later Greek poetry, the phalaecian was widely used by poets including writers of epigram. The ode to Rome (Supplementum Hellenisticum 541) in Sapphic stanzas by "Melinno" (probably writing during the reign of Hadrian) "is an isolated piece of antiquarianism."
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