the shepherd in the divine silence of the hills.[33] The fancy of three brothers, a hunter, a fowler, and a fisherman, meeting to make dedication of the spoils of their crafts to the country-god, was one which had a special charm for epigrammatists; it is treated by no less than nine poets, whose dates stretch over as many centuries.[34] Sick of cities, the imagination turned to an Arcadia that thenceforth was to fill all poetry with the music of its names and the fresh chill of its pastoral air; the lilied banks of Ladon, the Erymanthian water, the deep woodland of Pholoë and the grey steep of Cyllene.[35] Nature grew full of a fresh and lovely divinity. A spirit dwells under the sea, and looks with kind eyes on the creatures that go up and down in its depths; Artemis flashes by in the rustle of the windswept oakwood, and the sombre shade of the pines makes a roof for Pan; the wild hill becomes a sanctuary, for ever unsown and unmown, where the Spirit of Nature, remote and invisible, feeds his immortal flock and fulfils his desire.[36] ---------- [1] Od. iii. 47. [2] Anth. Pal. vii. 733; cf. also v. 14 in this selection. [3] Cf. Thuc. vii. 86. [4] Anth. Pal. iv. 3, ll. 113-116. [5] Ibid. vi. 105; x. 14. [6] Ibid. vi. 251; cf. v. 3 in this selection. [7] App. Plan. 227; Anth. Pal. x. 12. [8] App. Plan. 291; Anth. Pal. vi. 22, 119, ix. 144, x. 8, 10. [9] Anth. Pal. x. 11, vi. 98. [10] Ibid. ix. 334. [11] Ibid. vii. 694. [12] Thuc. v. 11; Arist. Eth. v. 7. [13] Anth. Pal. xiv. 71. [14] v. 15 in this selection. [15] Fr. anon. 719. [16] {ou mentoi soi Alkinou ge apologon ero}, Plato, Rep. 614 B. [17] {To zen gar ismen tou thanein d apeiria Pas tis phobeitai phos lipein tod eliou}--Eurip. Phoenix, fr. 9. [18] Hdt. v. 60, 61. [19] See Kaibel, Epigr. Gr. 738-742. [20] Anth. Pal. vi. 53. [21] Anth. Pal. x. 6, vi. 70. [22] Ibid. ix. 7, vi. 70. [23] Ibid. vi. 30, 25, 21, 178, 127. [24] Ibid. vi. 337; cf. Theocr. Idyl xxii. [25] Frag. incert. 257, {tout esti to zen oukh eauto zen monon}. [26] Anth. Pal. x. 10, 24. [27] Ibid. vi. 98, {ek mikron oligista}. [28] Ibid. vi. 98, 102; 103, 92; 174, 247. [29] Ibid. vi. 3, 336. [30] Ibid. vi. 177. [31] Ibid. vi. 55; cf. vi. 119, xii. 131. [32] Anth. Pal. vi. 31, 98. [33] App. Plan. 17; cf. Lucret. v. 1387. [34] Anth. Pal. vi. 11-16, and 179-187. The poets are Leonidas of Tarentum, Alcaeus of Messene, Antipater of Sidon, Alexander, Julius Diocles, Satyrus, Archias, Zosimus and Julianus Aegyptius. [35] Anth. Pal. vi. 111, App. Plan. 188: compare Song iii. in Milton's /Arcades/. [36] Anth. Pal. x. 8; vi. 253, 268; vi. 79. X