Symphosius
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thumb|Title page of the riddles of Symphosius, from the late tenth- or early eleventh-century London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii folio 104r Symphosius (sometimes, in older scholarship and less properly, Symposius) was the author of the Aenigmata, an influential collection of 100 Latin riddles, probably from the late antique period. They have been transmitted along with their solutions.
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- The enigmas of Symphosius
- The hundred riddles of Symphosius
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Africa
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Latin
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- writing language
- Latin
- date of birth
- 0400-00-00
- date of death
- 0500-00-00
- time period
- Low Roman Empire
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Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Symphosius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Biography
- The riddles
- Intrinsic nature of the Symphosius riddles, and how they may be solved
- Contents
- Influence
- Manuscripts
- Editions
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Title page of the riddles of Symphosius, from the late tenth- or early eleventh-century London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii folio 104r Symphosius (sometimes, in older scholarship and less properly, Symposius) was the author of the Aenigmata, an influential collection of 100 Latin riddles, probably from the late antique period. They have been transmitted along with their solutions.
==Biography==
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