O Paraklausíthyron

The article has the main goal to present a new poetic translation into Portuguese verses, accompanied by commentaries, of ten Greek epigrammatic paraklausíthyra from the fifth book of The Greek Anthology, not without first dealing with what the paraklausíthyron is in Greek poetic culture, briefly presenting some of its oldest occurrences, as well as its relation with the komos and the presence of the theme in Latin, especially in comedy, in addition to discussing the treatment that Roman poets, especially the elegists, offered to the poetic motif in question.