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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.
 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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IV. A vow to Priapus.

If by those oaks with roving step you wind,
An image fresh of fig-tree form'd you'll find;
Though cloath'd with bark, three-legg'd and void of ears,
Prompt for the pranks of pleasure he appears.
Springs gush perennial from the rocky hill,
And round the grotto roll their sparkling rill:
Green myrtles, bays, and cypress sweet abound,
And vines diffuse their circling arms around.
The vernal ousels their shrill notes prolong,
And modulate the loudly-varied song;
Sweet nightingales in soft-opponent strain,
Perch'd on the spray melodiously complain.
Repose you there, and to Priapus pray,
That Daphne may no more my bosom sway:
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Grant this, a goat shall at his altar bleed;
But if I gain the maid, three victims are decreed;
A stall-fed lamb, a goat, and heifer fair:
Thus may the god propitious hear my prayer.
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