The first edition, which collected in full the translations, imitations, arrangements from ancient Greek and ancient Roman poetry, made by Russian poets and translators from the 1730s. to the present day. It includes about 10,000 descriptions of translations, consists of three parts (Greek poetry, Greek epigram, Roman poetry), there is an index of translators, an index of authors of the Greek epigram, genre indexes of poetry of ancient Greece and Rome.