Nossis’s first epigram:

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Ἅδιον οὐδὲν ἔρωτος · ἃ δ’ ὄλβια, δεύτερα πάντα
ἐστίν · ἀπὸ στόματος δ’ ἔπτυσα καὶ τὸ μέλι.
τοῠτο λέγει Νοσσίς · τίνα δ’ ἁ Κύπρις οὐκ ἐφίλασεν.
οὐκ οἴδεν κήνα γ' ἅνθεα ποῐα ῥόδα.

—Νοσσις

I have not yet clapped eyes on an off-the-web Greek Anthology, but this Locrian site (by way of this site) has kindly put several of Nossis’s epigrams from the Anthology in picture form. I tried using the Macintosh’s support for foreign keyboards to type it in Greek, but it’s for modern Greek, so I used the Perseus Greek word study tool and its little language (a=alpha; h=eta; etc.) to compose the lines, save them to RTF Unicode-16, then used sed or awk to delete extras. Then to unicode.org to fill in some holes, some of which are not done yet.

If anyone knows a better way to do this on a Mac OS X, please tell me!
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