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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.
 I. 
IDYLLIUM I. Thyrsis, or the Himeræan Ode.
 II. 
IDYLLIUM II. Pharmaceutria.
 III. 
IDYLLIUM III. Amaryllis.
 IV. 
IDYLLIUM IV. The Shepherds.
 V. 
IDYLLIUM V. The Travellers.
 VI. 
IDYLLIUM VI. The Herdsmen.
 VII. 
IDYLLIUM VII. Thalysia, or, The Vernal Voyage.
 VIII. 
IDYLLIUM VIII. The Bucolic Singers.
 IX. 
IDYLLIUM IX. Daphnis and Menalcas.
 X. 
IDYLLIUM X. The Reapers.
 XI. 
IDYLLIUM XI. Cyclops.
 XII. 
IDYLLIUM XII. Aites.
 XIII. 
IDYLLIUM XIII. Hylas.
 XIV. 
IDYLLIUM XIV. Cynisca's Love.
 XV. 
IDYLLIUM XV. The Syracusian Gossips.
 XVI. 
IDYLLIUM XVI. The Graces, or Hiero.
 XVII. 
IDYLLIUM XVII. Ptolemy.
 XVIII. 
IDYLLIUM XVIII. The Epithalamium of Helen.
 XIX. 
IDYLLIUM XIX. The Honey-stealer.
 XXI. 
IDYLLIUM XXI. The Fishermen.
 XXII. 
IDYLLIUM XXII. Castor and Pollux.
 XXII. 
IDYLLIUM XXII.
 XXIII. 
IDYLLIUM XXIII. The Despairing Lover.
 XXIV. 
IDYLLIUM XXIV. The Young Hercules.
 XXV. 
IDYLLIUM XXV. Hercules the Lion-slayer.
 XXVI. 
IDYLLIUM XXVI. Bacchæ.
 XXVIII. 
IDYLLIUM XXVIII. The Distaff.
 XXIX. 
IDYLLIUM XXIX. The Mistress.
 XXX. 
IDYLLIUM XXX. The Death of Adonis.
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THE EPIGRAMS OF THEOCRITUS.
 I. 
I. Offerings to the Muses and Apollo.
 II. 
II. An offering to Pan.
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III. To Daphnis sleeping.
 IV. 
IV. A vow to Priapus.
 V. 
V. The Concert.
 VI. 
VI. Thyrsis has lost his Kid.
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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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III. To Daphnis sleeping.

On earth's soft lap, with leafy honours spread,
You, Daphnis, lull to rest your weary head:
While on the hill your snares for birds are laid,
Pan hunts your footsteps in the secret shade,
And rude Priapus, on whose temples wave
Gold ivy's leaves, resolv'd to find your cave:
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Ah! fly these revellers, at distance keep,
And instant burst the silken bands of sleep.
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