grayt.ead.0001-mss.0188Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0188#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt25[Translations from the Greek Anthology]Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum, [etc.]
1814 and 1890LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 170-178 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 332-337 (with English
prose translation)
Thirteen small pieces, subsumed under the work title
[Translations from the Greek Anthology],
presumably written late in Gray's Latin period, after his return from the
Continent in 1742.
First published in Mathias
(ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 94-97, except nos. [I] and [XII], first published in Tovey (ed.), Gray and
his Friends (1890), 295. No. [VI] was first
published as Nymph offering a Statue of
herself to Venus and
beginning "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam; formosias, ipsa". First
published complete and in Gray's order in
Bradshaw (ed.), Poetical Works (1891),
168-172.
mss.0188poems.lt25[XII] . . . . of Bassus[after 1742]1autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 160, 95Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
Autograph fair copy, headed "...Of Bassus",
in Gray's