Abstract
Scholars have read Meleager AP 12.53, in which ships carry news to his beloved Phanion, as a reflection of a real event in the poet’s life, but I interpret this epigram as a self-reflexive celebration of Meleager’s poetic skill. Adapting erotic and maritime motifs from Sappho, Pindar, Nossis, and Posidippus, as well as the propemptikon format, this poem anticipates not its poet’s arrival, but delivery of the poem itself: when Meleager announces that he “voyages on foot” (ποσσ δ πεζοπόρον), he puns on the idea of metrical feet. The propemptikon motif and metrical pun are later adopted by Roman poets
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