Admetus (Gr. ) was a Greek

epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek (, "inscription", from [], "to write on, to inscribe"). This literary device has been practiced for over two millennia ...

matist who lived in the early part of the 2nd century AD. One of his lines is preserved by

Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

.Brunck, Anal. iii. p. 21

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Ancient Greek epigrammatists Roman-era Greeks 2nd-century Greek poets Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources {{Greece-poet-stub