Tymnes (poet)

Tymnes (Greek: Τύμνης) was an epigrammatic poet, whose epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager, but respecting whose exact date we have no further evidence; for the grounds on which Reiske supposes that he was a Cretan, and that he was contemporary with Meleager, are very slight. There are seven of his epigrams in the Greek Anthology.

Quotes

 * Τῇδε τὸν ἐκ Μελίτης ἀργὸν κύνα φησὶν ὁ πέτρος ἴσχειν, Εὐμήλου πιστότατον φύλακα. Ταῦρόν μιν καλέεσκον, ὅτ᾿ ἦν ἔτι· νῦν δὲ τὸ κείνου  φθέγμα σιωπηραὶ νυκτὸς ἔχουσιν ὁδοί.
 * He came from Malta, and Eumelus says He had no better dog in all his days. We called him Bull; he went into the dark. Along those roads we cannot hear him bark.
 * Anthologia Palatina, vii, 211; "A Maltese Dog", as translated by Edmund Blunden, Halfway House (R. Cobden Sanderson, Ltd., 1932)