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Macedonius Consul is the author of forty one epigrams preserved in the Greek Anthology, and belonged to the court of Justinian at Constantinople. The epigrams were published in 567 by Agathias in his collection of contemporary epigrams, The Cycle. This book contains the Greek texts with English translation and detailed commentary as well as a substantial introduction discussing the poet's life, his personality, his poetry and his poetic interaction with the two major poets of the cycle, Paul the Silentiary and Agathias.