Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose

by Theocritus; of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion; Moschus

[0b] Empedocles on Etna.

[0c] Ballet des Arts, dansé par sa Majesté; le 8 janvier, 1663. A Paris, par Robert Ballard, MDCLXIII.

[0d] These and the following ditties are from the modern Greek ballads collected by MM. Fauriel and Legrand.

[0e] See Couat, La Poesie Alexandrine, p. 68 et seq., Paris 1882.

[0f] See Couat, op. cit. p. 395.

[0g] Couat, p. 434.

[0h] See Helbig, Campenische Wandmalerie, and Brunn, Die griechischen Bukoliker und die Bildende Kunst.

[0i] The Hecale of Callimachus, or Theseus and the Marathonian Bull, seems to have been rather a heroic idyl than an epic.

[6] Or reading Αίολικόν=Aeolian, cf. Thucyd. iii. 102.

[9] These are places famous in the oldest legends of Arcadia.