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Asclepiades

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Asclepiades (lived 3rd century BC)

Greek epigrammist and lyric poet of Samos, after whom the Asclepiad metre was named. His lyrics are rhythmic and musical and he injected new life into the epigram as a poetic form; 45 of his epigrams have survived.



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But Asclepiades says that Arsinoe was the daughter of Leucippus, Perieres' son, and that to her and Apollo Asclepius and a daughter, Eriopis, were born: `And she bare in the palace Asclepius, leader of men, and Eriopis with the lovely hair, being subject in love to Phoebus.
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