17. Q. What is the only complete poem that has come down to us from Sappho? A. The “Hymn to Aphrodite.”
18. Q. On what does the fame of Simonides chiefly rest? A. On his epigrams.
19. Q. What is the most celebrated, perhaps, of all the epigrams of Simonides? A. That on the Spartan Three Hundred who fell at Thermopylæ.
20. Q. What is the great name in Greek idyllic poetry? A. Theocritus.
21. Q. What two other pastoral poets are associated with Theocritus, in a kind of parasitic renown? A. Bion and Moschus.
22. Q. From what two idyls of Theocritus does our author give presentations? A. The “Death of Daphnis,” and the “Festival of Adonis.”
23. Q. Who is first among the masters of eloquence? A. Demosthenes.
24. Q. The name of what other orator is associated with that of Demosthenes? A. Æschines.
25. Q. What are the most celebrated of Demosthenes’s public orations? A. The “Olynthiacs,” the “Philippics,” and the oration on the “Crown.”