Theocritus, Idylls (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry] [word count] [lemma count] [Theoc. Id.]. | ||
<<Theoc. Id. 4.1 | Theoc. Id. 4.17 (Greek) | >>Theoc. Id. 4.62 |
4.2 Nay, Aegon’s; he hath given me the feeding of them in his stead.
O Croton is a bonny town as Zacynth by the sea,
And a bonny sight on her eastward height is the fane of Laciny,
Where boxer Milon one fine morn made fourscore loaves his meal,
And down the hill another day, while lasses holla’d by the way,
To Amaryllis, laughing gay led the bull by the heel.
BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS
CORYDON (sententiously)
BATTUS (scoffing)
CORYDON
BATTUS (with a momentary bitterness)
CORYDON
BATTUS (resuming his banter)
CORYDON (misunderstanding)
BATTUS
CORYDON
4.17 Zeus! No. Why, sometimes I graze her alone the Aesarus and give her a brave bottle of the tenderest green grass, and oftentimes her play-ground’s in the deep shade of Latymnus.BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS (sympathising as with another of Milon’s victims)
CORYDON
O Croton is a bonny town as Zacynth by the sea,
And a bonny sight on her eastward height is the fane of Laciny,
Where boxer Milon one fine morn made fourscore loaves his meal,
And down the hill another day, while lasses holla’d by the way,
To Amaryllis, laughing gay led the bull by the heel.
BATTUS (not proof against the tactless reference; apostrophising)
CORYDON
BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS (in mock-heroic strain)
CORYDON (pointing the moral)
BATTUS
CORYDON
BATTUS (apostrophising)
Theocritus, Idylls (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry] [word count] [lemma count] [Theoc. Id.]. | ||
<<Theoc. Id. 4.1 | Theoc. Id. 4.17 (Greek) | >>Theoc. Id. 4.62 |
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