ANTHOLOGY

title derived from a Gk. word, meaning a garland, or collection of flowers, and applied generally to a choice collection of poetry. The most famous collection of the kind is the Gk. Anthology. The earliest version was that compiled by Meleager of Gadara (60 B.C.), which included poems by himself and some forty earlier poets. Additions were made by later editors, the most complete and best selected collection being that compiled by marian. The MS. of this collection was discovered in the Heidelberg Library (1606), and was first pub. in Brunck’s known are F. T. Palgrave’s Golden Treas- -Couch’s Golden Pomp, and The Oxford Book of English Verse; H. C. O’Neill’s Pure Gold; Canon Be eching’s Lyra Sacra, and A Paradise of English Poetry; Watson’s Lyric Lore; Henley’s Lyra Heroic a; and Mase field’s A Satlor’s Garland. 1867), American cla ical scholar, was b. in New York. He was called to the bar 4n 1819, appointed adjunct profe or of anct. languages in Columbia College in 1820, and principal profe or in 1835. He ed. Lemprieré’s Cla ical Dictionary fin 1841 and compiled a Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities in 1843