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The Idylliums of Theocritus

Translated from the Greek. With notes critical and explanatory. By Francis Fawkes

Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)

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THE IDYLLIUMS OF THEOCRITUS, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.

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THE EPIGRAMS OF THEOCRITUS.

I.

I. Offerings to the Muses and Apollo.

II.

II. An offering to Pan.

III.

III. To Daphnis sleeping.

IV.

IV. A vow to Priapus.

V.

V. The Concert.

VI.

VI. Thyrsis has lost his Kid.

VII.

VII. On the Statue of Æsculapius.

VIII.

VIII. Orthon's Epitaph.

IX.

IX. On the fate of Cleonicus.

X.

X. On a Monument erected to the Muses.

XI.

XI. Epitaph on Eusthenes the Physiognomist.

XII.

XII. On a Tripod dedicated to Bacchus by Demoteles.

XIII.

XIII. On the image of the heavenly Venus.

XIV.

XIV. Epitaph on Eurymedon.

XV.

XV. On the same.

XVI.

XVI. On Anacreon's statue.

XVII.

XVII. On Epicharmus.

XVIII.

XVIII. Epitaph on Clita, the Nurse of Medeus.

XIX.

XIX. On Archilochus.

XX.

XX. On the Statue of Pisander, who wrote a poem stiled, The LABOURS of HERCULES.

XXI.

XXI. Epitaph on the Poet Hipponax.

XXII.

XXII. Theocritus on his own works.

THE COMBAT BETWEEN POLLUX AND AMYCUS. FROM APOLLONIUS, BOOK II.

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XVI. On Anacreon's statue.

With curious eye, O traveller, survey
This statue's form, and home-returning say,
“At Teos late with infinite regard,
“I saw the image of the sweetest bard,
“Anacreon; who, if antient poets claim
“The meed of praise, deserves immortal fame;”
Add this; “He lov'd (for this with truth you can)
“The fair, the gay, the young,” you'll paint the very man.