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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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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.