Back to his mother goes with garlands crowned.
Nice touch the arbiter must have indeed,
And must, methinks, the blue-eyed Ganymede
Invoke with many prayers—a mouth to own
True to the touch of lips, as Lydian stone
To proof of gold—which test will instant show
The pure or base, as money changers know.”
Idyl XXIX.
The following Idyl, of which I append a rendering, is attributed to Theocritus:—
Idyl XXIX.