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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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XVII. On Epicharmus.

The stile is Doric; Epicharmus he,
The poet who invented Comedy:
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This statue, Bacchus, sacred stands to you;
Accept a brazen image for the true.
The finish'd form at Syracuse is plac'd,
And, as is meet, with lasting honours grac'd.
Far-fam'd for wisdom, the preceptive bard
Taught those who gave the merited reward:
Much praise he gains who form'd ingenuous youth,
And show'd the paths to virtue, and to truth.
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