Automedon

One of his poems satirises an orator called Nicetes who probably lived in the time of Augustus and Tiberius. It is thus likely that Automedon lived in the early first century AD. Epigrams attributed to Automedon • Anthology # — Title / incipit — Greek title / incipit — Topic • 5.129 — On a prostitute dancer — εἰς πόρνην ὀρχηστρίδα — A dancer gives the poet an erection • 10.23 — Nicetes like the breeze, when a ship has little sail up — Νικήτης ὀλίγοις μὲν ἐπὶ προτόνοισιν ἀήτης — An orator's style compared to a ship's journey • 11.29 — Send and summon her — Πέμπε, κάλει — Automedon's erectile dysfunction • 11.46 — We are human in the evening — Ἄνθρωποι δείλης — Contrast between convivial behaviour at night and hostile behaviour in the day. • 11.50 — Blessed is the one who owes nothing to anyone — Εὐδαίμων, πρῶτον μὲν ὁ μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλων — A wise man avoids marriage. • 11.319 — Bringing ten sacks of charcoal — Ἀνθρακίων δέκα μέτρα φέρων — Athens' excessive generosity with honours. • 11.324 — Accept the dinner, Phoebus — Δέξαι, Φοῖβε, τὸ δεῖπνον — Apollo complains that Arrius the priest eats all his sacrifices • 11.325 — Yesterday, I had a goat's foot for dinner — Ἐχθὲς δειπνήσας τράγεον πόδα — The poet was invited to an unsatisfactory dinner. • 11.326 — Beard and shaggy thigh hair — Πώγων, καὶ λάσιαι μηρῶν τρίχες — The beautiful youth Connichus has grown old • 11.346 — How long, Polycarpus? — Μέχρι τίνος, Πολύκαρπε — A banker is destroyed by his faithlessness • 11.361 — Mules grown old together — Ἡμίονοι σύγγηροι — Description of two old mules. • 12.34 — With coach Demetrius — Πρὸς τὸν παιδοτρίβην Δημήτριον — Demetrius' attractive students wait on him at dinner. One poem in the Anthology, attributed to Automedon, is ascribed in the Palatine Anthology to the third-century BC poet Theocritus and may be from that period.

The recorded working language is Ancient Greek.