Patrick Flynn, who nominated and will lead our upcoming discussion of Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of the Greek Anthology, translated by Daryl Hine, was kind enough to share the following info, excerpted from Wikipedia:
"In 1606 or 1607 Claudius Salmasius discovered, in the library of the Counts Palatine in Heidelberg, the only surviving copy of [Constantine] Cephalas' early [ca. 950 CE] unexpurgated copy of the Greek Anthology. This included the 258-poem anthology of homoerotic verse by Straton of Sardis [early 2nd century CE] that would eventually become known as the notorious Book 12 of that collection. It was copied and circulated by hand and first published in 1776. Some 225 more years would pass before a full Greek-to-English translation was issued."
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