anthoiogy (1)

[In Sw. anthologi; Dan., Ger., & Fr. an tho logie Sp. an to logia; Port. an tho logia; Gr. ἀνθολογία ( an tho logia ) = (1) a flower-gathering, (2) a collection of poems: ἄνθος ( anthos ) = a flower, and λέγω ( lego ) =. to gather.] 1. Gen.: A gathering of flowers in a metaphorical sense; a collection or gathering together of pa ages of flower-like beauty from Greek, Roman, or indeed from any cla ic authors. Though some of these might be in prose, yet the great majority were, as was natural, in poetry, which might be grave or gay, it mattered not what, above all, was needful was, that whatever the subject treated of, some one prominent thought should be expre ed in terse and felicitous language. [EPIGRAM.] "They are very different from the simple sepulchral inscriptions of the ancients, of which that of Meleager on his wife, in the Greek anthology , is a inodel and master-piece."-Dr. Warton: E ay on Pope , ii. 472. 2. Spec. In the Greek Church : A collection of devotional pieces.