Poems by Theocritus
Idyll XXVI. The Bacchanals
... And reared therewith twelve shrines amid the untrodden fell: ...
For a Tripod Erected by Damoteles to Bacchus
... He was champion of men, if his boyhood had faults ...
As much as spring is more delightful than winter
... As much as a nightingale surpasses in song all feathered kind, ...
Contrast of Morn and Night
... As the clear spring, when winter's gloom is gone,-- ...
The Avaricious
... As to overreach the man who is a slave to avarice ...
Idyll VI. The Drawn Battle
... Sea-ward the fleeced flocks' sentinel peers and barks, ...
Idyll XVI. The Value of Song
... And hide on their chill knees once more their patient head ...
Idyll XX. Town and Country
... His cares: and wooed, and wept, Adonis in the brake ...
Idyll I. The Death of Daphnis
... Where were ye, Nymphs, oh where, while Daphnis pined ...
For a Statue of AEsculapius
... The sculptor's hand right well did Nicias fill ...
Idyll XII. The Comrades
... If thou dost sometime grieve me, sweet the pleasure ...
Idyll VIII. The Triumph of Daphnis
... Both chins were gilt with coming beards: both lads could sing and play: ...
A Sylvan Scene (II.)
... And the pebbles below shone like crystal ...
Idyll XVII. The Praise of Ptolemy
... Poised in the clouds screamed thrice, the prophet-bird ...
Reapers
... And cease when it goes to sleep ...
