Today’s OCD entry is Anthologia Latina.
Anthologia Latina, a modern invention gradually created in print and not intrinsically distinct from Poetae Latini minores or the Appendix Vergilianae, gathers poems mostly short that have no better home. Riese’s arrangement by date of attestation has fewest drawbacks.
The largest block, found in the corrupt and mutilated Codex Salmasianus (8th-9th cent.), was compiled in Vandal Africa, on which it sheds interesting light. In numbered sections of unequal length it embraces a liber epigrammaton in various metres by Luxorius (Riese 287-375), which yields a date after AD 533; another collection probably by one African poet (R. 90-197); Virgilian centos; couplets that end as they begin, or are repeated in reverse; epigrams attributed to the younger Seneca; snippets of Propertius, Ovid, Martial; Symphosius’ 100 riddles; and longer pieces such as the Pervigilium Veneris. A Claudian and Neronian block in the Codex Vossianus (c. 850) ends with epigrams attributable to Petronius (R. 464-79). From late sources Riese forgivably took poems since proved humanistic.
Though Riese segregated Carmina epigraphica (ed. Buecheler, 1895-7), some literary poems in the Anthologia Latina originated as inscriptions, e.g. on bath-houses or mosaics, and others had an epigraphical history still unclarified (e.g. R. 392-3).