They now determined to pay the last honours to their benefactor; accordingly they came with the neighbours and relatives of the deceased, and buried him. They then threw up over his grave a large pile of earth, and planted about it various trees, and suspended over it[35] the emblems of their calling; in addition to which they poured libations of milk and of juice expressed from the grapes, and broke many pastoral pipes. Mournful lowings of the cattle were heard, accompanied with unwonted and disorderly movements, which the shepherds believed to be lamentations and tokens of sorrow on the part of the herd for their departed herdsman.[36] After the funeral of Dorco, Chloe led Daphnis to the grotto of the Nymphs, where she washed him; and then, for the first time in his presence, bathed her own person, fair and radiant with beauty, and needing no bath to set off its comeliness. Then, after gathering the flowers which the season afforded, they crowned the statues with garlands, and suspended Dorco's pipe as a votive offering to the Nymphs. Having done this they returned to look for their flocks, which they found lying on the ground neither feeding nor bleating, but looking about, as if waiting in suspense for their re-appearance. When they came in view of them, and called to them in their usual manner, and sounded their pipes, the sheep got up, and began to feed, while the goats skipped about, and bleated as if exulting at the safety of their herdsman. But Daphnis could not attune his soul to joy; after seeing Chloe naked, and her formerly concealed beauties unveiled, he felt an inward pain as though preyed upon by poison. His breath went and came as though he were flying from some pursuer; and then it failed, as though he were exhausted with running. Chloe had come from the bath with redoubled charms, and the bath was thus more fatal to Daphnis than the ocean. As for himself, he attributed his feelings to being, in fancy, still among the thieves,[37]--rustic as he was, and as yet ignorant of the thievish tricks of love. [Footnote 1: Compare the description of the Grotto of the Nymphs in Ithaca. Odys. B. xiii. ----"A pleasant cave Umbrageous, to the Nymphs devoted, nam'd The Naiads--Beakers in that cave and jars Of stone are found; bees lodge their honey there; And there on slender spindles of the rock The nymphs of rivers weave their wondrous robes, Perennial springs rise in it."--Cowper. ] [Footnote 2: Kένταυρoς ζαμενής, ἀγᾶνᾳ χλαρὸν γελάσσαις ὀφρύῖ.--Pindar. ] [Footnote 3: ἡ ὧα--rendered by the Latin translation, "fastigium;" by the Italian, "giro;" by the French, "voûte"--is not to be found, in that sense, in Liddell and Scott's Lexicon.] [Footnote 4: Theoc. Idyll, xx. 28. enumerates these instruments:-- Άδὺ δέ μοι τὸ μέλισμα, καὶ ἢv σύριγγι μελίσδω, Κἤν αὐλῶ λαλεώ, κἢν δώνακι, κἢν πλαγιαύλῳ-- The πλαγίαύλος resembled the German flute.]