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Mesomedes lived in the 2nd century ce. He was part of the court of Hadrian, and has the lucky distinction of being one of the few poets to have any of his verses survive with musical notation.

His language gives hints of a Doric coloring, mostly alpha for Attic-Ionic eta, but at the same time the manuscripts may have an eta where Attic would have alpha, such as αὔρη.