Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] THEOCRITUS, BION AND MOSCHUS RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE WITH _AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY_ BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. _Lately Fellow of Merton College_, _Oxford_ [Picture: Decorative graphic] LONDON MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1889 _All rights reserved_ * * * * * TO ERNEST MYERS ’Εκ Μοισᾶν ξεινήιον CONTENTS PAGE THEOCRITUS AND HIS AGE xi THEOCRITUS— Idyl I 3 ,, II 11 ,, III 20 ,, IV 23 ,, V 27 ,, VI 35 ,, VII 38 ,, VIII 46 ,, IX 52 ,, X 55 ,, XI 59 ,, XII 64 ,, XIII 67 ,, XIV 71 ,, XV 76 ,, XVI 85 ,, XVII 91 ,, XVIII 97 ,, XIX 101 ,, XX 102 ,, XXI 105 ,, XXII 110 ,, XXIII 121 ,, XXIV 125 ,, XXV 132 ,, XXVI 144 ,, XXVII 147 ,, XXVIII 152 ,, XXIX 154 ,, XXX 147 Epigrams 159 BION— Idyl I 171 ,, II 176 ,, III 178 ,, IV 179 ,, V 179 ,, VI 180