MELEAGER, a Greek poet, was the collector of the first Anthologia that is known. Neither the place where he was born, nor the time at which he flourished is known with any degree of precision. We think that Mr. Clinton (Fasti Hellenici, xi. p. 541) proves that he is not Meleager, the cynic of Gadara, the contemporary of Menippus, but that he flourished after Antipater Sidonius somewhere about 95 B.C. Meleager was the editor of a collection of fugitive pieces of poetry, and the author of some original poems. His collection was made from the works of forty-six authors, and was entitled Στεφάνος, the Garland. The authors were Anytus, Myro, Sappho, Melanippides, Simonides, Nossis, Rhianus, Erinna, Alceus, Samilo, Leonidas, Mnasalces, Pamphilus, Pancretes, Tymnes, Nicias, Euphemus, Damagetes, Callimachus, Euphorion, Hegisippus, Perseus, Diodotus, Menecrates, Nicenetes, Phaenus, Simmius, Parthenis, Bacchylides, Anacreon, Anthemius, Archilochus, Alexander Cretolus, Polycletus, Polystratus, Antipater, Posidippus, Hedylos, Sicelides, Plato, Aratus, Cheremon, Phaedimus, Antagoras, Theodorides, and Phanius. This collection has disappeared, but we possess one hundred and thirty-one pieces which are said to have been the production of this poet. They are written principally on amorous subjects, and are remarkable for the elegance of their versification. The best editions of Meleager are that of Manso, (Iena 1789.) of Meinecke, (Lips. 1789.) and of Græfe (Lips. 1811.) See Fabricius, Biblioth. Græca, tom. iv.; Prolegomena to the Anthologia Græca of Jacobs; Reiske in his Preface to his Anthologia Græca; Schneider in his Analecta Critica, facic. 1.; Burette, Mémoires de l'Acad. des inscript. xix.