"ἵζευ ἅπας ὑπὸ καλὰ δάφνας εὐθαλέα φύλλα, ὡραίου τ᾽ ἄρυσαι νάματος ἁδὺ πόμα, ὄφρα τοι ἀσθμαίνοντα πόνοις θέρεος φίλα γυῖα ἀμπαύσῃς, πνοιῇ τυπτόμενα Ζεφύρου."
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Women born before the 19th centuryPoets from GreeceEpigrammatists of the Greek AnthologyWomen authors
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Anthologia Palatina, ix, 313, as translated by Robert Allason Furness, Translations from the Greek Anthology (1931), "Under a Laurel"
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Anyte of Tegea
Anyte of Tegea (fl. c. 300 BC) was a Greek poetess from in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the ', and one is quoted by . She introduced rural themes to the genre, which became a standard theme in Hellenistic epigram. She is one of the nine outstanding ancient women poets listed by . Her pastoral poetry may have influenced Theocritus, and her works were adapted by several later poets, including Ovid.
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