Theocritus, Idylls (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry] [word count] [lemma count] [Theoc. Id.]. | ||
<<Theoc. Id. 4.1 | Theoc. Id. 4.50 (Greek) | >>Theoc. Id. 5.1 |
4.23 All the same that bull’s driven to the sea-lake and the Physcian border, and to that garden of good things, goat-flower, mullet, note sweet odorous balsam, to with Neaethus.
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 (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. 4.50 (Greek) | >>Theoc. Id. 5.1 |
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