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The idylliums of Moschus and Bion

Translated from the Greek. With annotations. To which is prefixed, An Account of their Lives; with some Remarks on their Works; and some Observations upon Pastoral. By Mr. Cooke
Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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MOSCHUS.
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THE IDYLLIUMS OF BION.
 I. 
Idyllium I. Upon the Death of Adonis.
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Idyllium II.
 III. 
Idyllium III. The Dream.
 IV. 
Idyllium IV.
 V. 
Idyllium V.
 VI. 
Idyllium VI. Cleodamus and Myrson.
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Idyllium VII. Friendship.
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FRAGMENTS.

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Idyllium VII. Friendship.

Thrice happy those, who, with a mutual Flame,
Observe the Rev'rence due to Friendship's Name;
Thrice happy Theseus, could undaunted go,
With his Perithous, to the Realms below;
Together both before the Monarch stand,
Nor dread the Terrors of the direful Land;
Orestes, blest in ev'ry toilsome State,
Shar'd with his Pylades one common Fate;
Achilles, in the midst of Battel blest,
Whilst he enjoy'd the Partner of his Breast,
Found his Patroclus, happy in his End;
For when he fell himself, he sav'd his Friend.
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