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Also known as Caelius Firmianus Symphosius, Symposius

thumb|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. They have been transmitted along with their solutions.

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7 objects attributed to Symphosius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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  • Biography
  • The riddles
  • Intrinsic nature of the Symphosius riddles, and how they may be solved
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  • Influence
  • Manuscripts
  • Editions
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  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|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. They have been transmitted along with their solutions.

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