The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman, Kirka or Krika, which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena, Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.

This family includes extant manuscripts dating from the 5th century or later ; however, papyrus fragments may be used to show that this text-type dates as early as the Alexandrian or Western text-types.

The few extant fragments of satyr-plays attributed to Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate that these were a loosely structured, simple and jovial form of entertainment.

None of the extant fragments have this name in full but Fragments 7 and 15 are often restored to include it.

Thirty-one works are extant, together with fragments of more.

Excepting the commentary on Isaiah ( fragments preserved in the catenae ) and on Galatians ii. 6-13, the exegetical writings of Theodoret are extant.

Besides Adonis, other myths that appear in his work are those of Hyacinthus and the Cyclops ; to judge from references in the Epitaph on Bion, which frequently alludes to Bion's work, he also wrote a poem on Orpheus, to which some of the extant fragments may have belonged.

The fragments extant, moreover, do not always enable us to form a clear notion of the works to which they once belonged.

This precept, from one of Bacchylides ' extant fragments, was considered by his modern editor, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, to be typical of the poet's temperament: " If the utterances scattered throughout the poems warrant a conjecture, Bacchylides was of placid temper ; amiably tolerant ; satisfied with a modest lot ; not free from some tinge of that pensive melancholy which was peculiarly Ionian ; but with good sense ..."

The following extant ancient sources contain the Sumerian King List, or fragments:

There existed in antiquity an epic poem Aegimius of which a few fragments are extant,

Coincidentally he also composed a Dithyramb on the subject of Perseus that is now one of the largest fragments of his extant verses.

His work survives today only as quotations by ancient scholars or recorded on fragments of papyrus recovered from archaeological sites in Egypt, yet his extant verses include some of the finest examples of Greek poetry.

The Aluzinnu (“ trickster ,” a jester, clown or buffoon ) text, extant in five fragments from the neo-Assyrian period concerns an individual, dābibu, ākil karṣi, “ character assassin ,” who made a living entertaining others with parodies, mimicry, and scatological songs.

Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero ( mostly extant ), Ovid ( only two short fragments remain ), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus ( extant, with scholia ), and the less-famous Avienus ( extant ).

Of these, only six hymns, sixty-four epigrams, and some fragments are extant ; a considerable fragment of the Hecale, one of Callimachus ' few longer poems treating epic material, has also been discovered in the Rainer papyri.

The nature of the extant fragments fully bears out the divergent criticisms of antiquity upon Theopompus.

Commentaries on the Almagest were written by Theon of Alexandria ( extant ), Pappus of Alexandria ( only fragments survive ), and Ammonius Hermiae ( lost ).

There are a few extant fragments of his works.

Only fragments are extant of his numerous and important works, among which may be mentioned:

Fragments of the former work have come down to us in the compilation known as the Quadrilogus, which is printed in the fourth volume of J. C. Robertson's Materials for the Histories of Thomas Becket (" Rolls " series ); the miracles are extant in their entirety, and are printed in the second volume of the same collection.

The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail is Herodotus's Histories ( Book IV, Chapters 32 – 36 ), written circa 450 BC.

For example, the oldest extant manuscripts of monumental treatises on Ancient Roman and Greek history, such as Annals and Histories, are conventionally dated ca.

Tacitus's contemporaries were well-acquainted with his work ; Pliny the Younger, one of his first admirers, congratulated him for his better-than-usual precision and predicted that his Histories would be immortal: only a third of his known work has survived and then through a very tenuous textual tradition ; we depend on a single manuscript for books I-VI of the Annales and on another one for the other surviving half ( books XI-XVI ) and for the five books extant of the Historiae.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox receive several additional books in to their canons based upon their presence in manuscripts of the ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, the Septuagint ( although some of these books, such as Sirach and Tobit, are now known to be extant in Hebrew or Aramaic originals, being found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls ).

In some areas of Newfoundland, the custom of decorating the May bush, or bough, is also still extant.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

There are about 170 extant Latin translations of Josephus, some of which go back to the sixth century, and according to Louis Feldman have proven very useful in reconstructing the Josephus texts through comparisons with the Greek manuscripts, reconfirming proper names and filling in gaps.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

Most extant marine reptiles, except for some sea snakes, are oviparous and need to return to land to lay their eggs.

Among the rejected Lake translation: " not genuine " writings must be reckoned also the Acts of Paul, and the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, and in addition to these the extant epistle of Barnabas, and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles ; and besides, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seem proper, which some, as I said, reject, but which others class with the accepted books.

He also composed some comedies, one of which alone is extant.

Although some direct commentaries on particular treatises are extant, our main knowledge of Gaonic era Talmud scholarship comes from statements embedded in Geonic responsa that shed light on Talmudic passages: these are arranged in the order of the Talmud in Levin's Otzar ha-Geonim.

In the early medieval era, Rashi concluded that some statements in the extant text of the Talmud were insertions from later editors.

There is extant a very pious Latin letter written by him to a fellow-martyr, and another to Cromwell, begging for some slight mitigation of his " close prison "; " license to go to church and say Mass here within the Tower and for to lie in some house upon the Green ".

Some fifteen works in Latin or Greek are lost, some as recently as the 9th century ( De Paradiso, De superstitione saeculi, De carne et anima were all extant in the now damaged Codex Agobardinus in 814 AD ).

Here are some of the extant historic viols at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

The Adaduanan cycle appears to be based on an older six-day week, still extant in some northern Guan communities such as the Nchumuru, on which is superimposed a seven-day week which may have been brought south with itinerant traders from the Savannah.

At the time of the Sheraton Hotel incident, the extant Ministerial Directive permitted ASIS to undertake ' covert action ', including ' special operations ' which, roughly described, comprised ' unorthodox, possibly para-military activity, designed to be used in case of war or some other crisis '.

Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece.

More recently some developers have suggested enhanced tactics such as examining the sources of extant free and open-source software.

All molecular studies have strongly upheld the placement of turtles within diapsids ; some place turtles within Archosauria, or, more commonly, as a sister group to extant archosaurs, though an analysis conducted by Lyson et al.

In its extant form, Valmiki's Ramayana is an epic poem of some 50, 000 lines.

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

In some cases, such as Gorgias, there are original rhetorical works that are fortunately extant, allowing the author to be judged on his own terms.