Abstract
In addition to imitating ancient Latin like Aulus Gellius, Suetonius Tranquillus, and the poet Horace in his writings, the Florentine Petrus Crinitus (1474–1507) also composed Latin poems ex Graeco, taking as his models poems from the Greek Anthology and prose texts from the Apophthegmata Laconica of Ps. Plutarch. Crinitus, however, produced serious and even melancholy adaptations, downplaying the humor present in the Greek models. His poems ex Graeco thereby reflect the serious tone and didactic themes of his other poems. Crinitus' selective handling of his Greek models is evident when his poems ex Graeco are compared with their Greek sources and with other poems in his extant collection to which they are thematically related.
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