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.[1] They have been transmitted along with their solutions.
^Sebo, Erin (2018). In enigmate : the history of a riddle, 400-1500. Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 978-1-84682-773-0. OCLC 1055160490.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
(Saturnalian gifts)'. According to Sebo, the preface to Symphosius's riddles 'reveals that within Symphosius' milieu there is still a conception of riddles as...
'penis'. Meanwhile, its analogue in the late-antique Latin riddles of Symphosius is: Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter...
by Symphosius which were influential on later medieval Latin writers. The Bern Riddles, a collection of Latin riddles clearly modelled on Symphosius, were...
collection of riddles by Saint Boniface Aenigmata, a collection of riddles by Symphosius Enigmata Tatwini, a collection of riddles by Tatwine Enigmata Eusebii...
850 in Metz. Also Amalarius Mettensis (Amalarius of Metz), Amalarius Symphosius or Amalarius Fortunatus. His name in contemporary Latin comes in many...
Latin Nonnus, Egypt, writing in Greek Quintus Smyrnaeus, writing in Greek Symphosius, perhaps North African, writing in Latin Tryphiodorus, Egypt, writing...
derive from the c. fourth-century Latin riddle-collection attributed to Symphosius. Other scholars believe the incest story to have been a later addition...
manuscript was described by Herbert Dean Merritt thus: 25 leaves, Riddles of Symphosius and Aldhelm, ninth century. At the end of the Riddles, folio 25v, is the...
1753. It contains among a variety of grammatical texts the Aenigmata of Symphosius, the Enigmata of Aldhelm and a variety of prose and metrical texts by...
Aurelianensis, Eigil Fuldensis, Dungalus reclusus, Ermoldus Nigellus, Symphosius Amalarius 106 Gregorius IV, Sergius II, Jonas Aurelianensis, Freculphus...
hostilities broke out in 431 and 433. In 433 king Hermeric sent a local bishop, Symphosius, as ambassador, this being the first evidence for collaboration between...
Gallaecians. In that same year, Hermeric negotiated through the Catholic bishop Symphosius directly with the Western Roman Emperor. In 437, Censorius made a second...
principal analogue noted in past work is Riddle 91 in the collection by Symphosius on 'money': Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The...
Aurelianensis, Eigil Fuldensis, Dungalus reclusus, Ermoldus Nigellus, Symphosius Amalarius, Gregorius IV, Sergius II, Jonas Aurelianensis, Freculphus Lexoviensis...
Carmina cantabrigensia, but also containing collections of Latin riddles by Symphosius, Boniface, Aldhelm, Tatwine, and Eusebius. Although Frederick Tupper doubted...
Symposii Aenigmata ("The Riddles of Symphosius"), and many of his riddles were directly inspired by Symphosius's. But overall, Aldhelm's collection is...
de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 121-47 (p. 140). Erin Sebo, 'In scirpo nodum: Symphosius’ Reworking of the Riddle Form', in The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay...
Northumbria, 685-704/5). Many of the Enigmata are based on the riddles of Symphosius. Not, however, De creatura. Linguistic evidence suggests that Riddle 40...
inspired by the c. fourth-century collection of riddles attributed to Symphosius, and date to around the seventh century. The author of the Bern Riddles...
End of the riddles of Symphosius and beginning of the riddles of Eusebius in London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii folio 113v, showing Eusebius's...
text is usually thought to have been inspired by the second riddle in Symphosius's collection, whose answer is 'harundo' ('reed'). The same riddle also...
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