3 . The best discussion of how to categorise figured poetry is Jeremy Adler , ‘ Technopaignia , carmina figurata and Bilder-Reime : Seventeenth-Century Figured Poetry in Historical Context ’, Comparative Criticism 4 ( 1982 ), 107 – 47 . An anthology is Dick Higgins , Pattern Poetry : Guide to an Unknown Literature ( New York , 1987 ).
4 . Dirk van Miert , ‘ Joseph Scaliger , Claude Saumaise , Isaac Casaubon and the Discovery of the “ Palatine Anthology ” ( 1606 )’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 74 ( 2011 ), 241 – 61 .
5 . Thus Roger Ascham , The Scholemaster ( London , 1570 ), p . 61 , claimed that Simmias had published a whole book in rhyming Greek called ‘ The Egg ’, a statement repeated by later Elizabethan writers including Gabriel Harvey and William Webbe .
6 . It was bracketed by the satirist Lucian with the exceptionally ‘ dark ’ poet Lycophron , to whose Alexandria it is indebted ( Lucian , Lexiphanes , 25 ).
7 . For the early editorial tradition see Karl Haeberlin , Carmina figurata Graeca , 2 nd ed . ( Hanover , 1887 ), pp . 2 – 10 . Salmasius appended an edition of all six poems , with massed commentary , to his Duarum inscriptionum . . . explicatio ( Paris , 1619 ); this remained the reference point for several generations .
8 . Pliny the Elder , Natural History , 7.85 .
9 . Harmar ’ s dictates survive in two copies , one made by Leonard Bennett , admitted in 1587 , a year before Harmar became schoolmaster , and the other by William Twisse , admitted in 1591 . There is an image of this particular poem , from Twisse ’ s copy , in Geoffrey Day , John Harmar : Translator ( Winchester , 2016 ), p . 96 .
10 . Poematum liber , sig . Djr – v .
11 . Derek Attridge , Well-Weighed Syllables : Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres ( London , 1974 ), pp . 105 – 8 .
12 . Hexametri , odae et epigrammata ( Venice , 1550 ), fp . 134v .
13 . Two examples : Salmonius Macrinus ’ s ‘ Ad Gelonidem ’ in his Carminum libellus ( Paris , 1528 ), sig . biir , is a twelve-line ‘ wing ’ to his wife on how he misses her when he is away ; and J . B . Pigna , Carminum lib . quatuor ( Venice , 1553 ), pp . 97 – 99 , offers three ‘ pipes ’ after Theocritus .
14 . Bodleian , MS Rawl . poet . 187 . For the Latin speech delivered to Elizabeth upon her visit , see MS Auct . F 5 . 13 , pp . 213-15 .
15 . Bodleian , MS Lat . misc . e 13 . 16 . Bodleian , MS Wood D 13 , fols . 1r-18v . 17 . Bodleian , MS Add . A 276 . 18 . Bodleian , MS Tanner 466 , section 2 .
19 . It is by the Savilian Professor of Geometry , John Wallis , printed as a separate leaf usually inserted between sigs . B1 and B2 of Domiduca Oxoniensis ( 1662 ), and also encountered separately .
20 . Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey , A . D . 1573 – 1580 , ed . Edward Scott ( London , 1884 ), pp . 100 – 1 .
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