Greek epigrammatist; dating uncertain (Neronian/Flavian era? [2; 4]; 2nd cent. AD? [3]; late 4th cent. AD? [1]); origin unknown (Anth. Pal. 5,9: residence in Ephesus). 37 erotic poems are extant, all in Anth. Pal. 5,2-103 (on this so-called Sylloge Rufiniana, perhaps also from the 4th cent. AD, cf. [5]). With the exception of the paederastic poem 28 (cf. also 19), R.' epigrams, in which 13 women's names are mentioned (two f…
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Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna),
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Johne, Klaus-Peter (Berlin),
Gatti, Paolo (Trento),
Gutsfeld, Andreas (Münster),
Portmann, Werner (Berlin) and
Berschin, Walter (Heidelberg),
“Rufinus”, in:
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