Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered Into English ProseMacmillan and Company, 1909 - 210 páginas |
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Página xxv
... wild roses by the roadside is mingled with the perfumed breath of cattle that hurry past on their homeward road . There was scarcely a form of the life he saw that did not seem to him worthy of song , though it might be but the gossip ...
... wild roses by the roadside is mingled with the perfumed breath of cattle that hurry past on their homeward road . There was scarcely a form of the life he saw that did not seem to him worthy of song , though it might be but the gossip ...
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... wild woodland beings in raiment of purple and scarlet . Then came scores of satyrs with gilded lamps in their hands . Next appeared beautiful maidens , attired as Victories , waving golden wings and swinging vessels of burning incense ...
... wild woodland beings in raiment of purple and scarlet . Then came scores of satyrs with gilded lamps in their hands . Next appeared beautiful maidens , attired as Victories , waving golden wings and swinging vessels of burning incense ...
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... wild things of the wood bewailed him , how Hermes and Priapus gave him counsel in vain , and how with his last breath he retorted the taunts of the implacable Aphrodite . The scene is in Sicily . Thyrsis . Sweet , meseems , is the ...
... wild things of the wood bewailed him , how Hermes and Priapus gave him counsel in vain , and how with his last breath he retorted the taunts of the implacable Aphrodite . The scene is in Sicily . Thyrsis . Sweet , meseems , is the ...
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... wild beasts . Nay , go and con- front Diomedes again , and say , " The herds- man Daphnis I conquered , do thou join battle with me . " Begin , ye Muses dear , begin the pastoral song ! ' Ye wolves , ye jackals , and ye bears in the ...
... wild beasts . Nay , go and con- front Diomedes again , and say , " The herds- man Daphnis I conquered , do thou join battle with me . " Begin , ye Muses dear , begin the pastoral song ! ' Ye wolves , ye jackals , and ye bears in the ...
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... maiden - bearer of the mystic vessel came our way , Anaxo , daughter of Eubulus , to the grove of Artemis ; and behold , she had many other wild beasts paraded for that time , in the sacred show , and among them 14 THEOCRITUS.
... maiden - bearer of the mystic vessel came our way , Anaxo , daughter of Eubulus , to the grove of Artemis ; and behold , she had many other wild beasts paraded for that time , in the sacred show , and among them 14 THEOCRITUS.
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Términos y frases comunes
Adonis Aeschines Alcmena Alexandria Amphitryon Amycus Aphrodite art thou Augeas Battus beasts beautiful begin the dirge begin the pastoral behold beneath Bion bull child Comatas Corydon Cypris Damoetas Daphnis dawn deep Dionysus Dorian dost thou doth dwell Europa eyes F. T. PALGRAVE fair flock flowers Galatea gift goat goatherd gods golden Gorgo Greek hand hath heart heifer Heracles herds herdsman hither honour IDYL Iphicles kine kiss labour Lacon Lady Moon lament lips lover Lycidas magic wheel maiden Menalcas methinks mighty milk Milon minstrels mortals Moschus mother neatherd never Nicias night nymphs pastoral song perchance pipe poem poet Polydeuces Praxinoë Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus Selected and arranged she-goats shepherds Sicily sing sleep spake sweet sweetly tell Theocritus thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou wilt Thyonichus trees twain wild wretched ye Muses dear ye Sicilian Muses Zeus
Pasajes populares
Página 106 - Beneath their heads was a scanty matting, their clothes, their sailor's caps. Here was all their toil, here all their wealth. The threshold had never a door, nor a watch-dog ; 3 all things, all, to them seemed superfluity, for Poverty was their sentinel. They had no neighbour by them, but ever against their narrow cabin gently floated up the sea.
Página xix - That muffle its wet banks; but glade, And stream, and sward, and chestnut-trees, End here; Etna beyond, in the broad glare Of the hot noon, without a shade, Slope behind slope, up to the peak, lies bare; The peak, round which the white clouds play.
Página xix - The track winds down to the clear stream, To cross the sparkling shallows; there The cattle love to gather, on their way To the high...