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... Greek of Bion is turned into a dull , literal English translation , we have no difficulty in iden- tifying this bird . He is the runaway Eros of Moschus , 1 still fugitive , yet the mysterious center of Bion's idyll . In Moschus ' poem ...
... Greek of Bion is turned into a dull , literal English translation , we have no difficulty in iden- tifying this bird . He is the runaway Eros of Moschus , 1 still fugitive , yet the mysterious center of Bion's idyll . In Moschus ' poem ...
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... Greek boy often sought the advice of his teachers , this young hunter turns quickly to the old man from whom he had learned his art . This youthful decision further demonstrates the boy's unworldliness . The senex sees the " big bird ...
... Greek boy often sought the advice of his teachers , this young hunter turns quickly to the old man from whom he had learned his art . This youthful decision further demonstrates the boy's unworldliness . The senex sees the " big bird ...
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... Greeks by the noblemen of Athens . 8 If for the Greeks the grasshopper is a symbol of the gay months and their magic ... Greek Anthology , VII , 195–96 . 10 Strabo Geography VI.1 , 9. Paulus Silentiarius ( G.A. , VI , 54 ) puts this myth ...
... Greeks by the noblemen of Athens . 8 If for the Greeks the grasshopper is a symbol of the gay months and their magic ... Greek Anthology , VII , 195–96 . 10 Strabo Geography VI.1 , 9. Paulus Silentiarius ( G.A. , VI , 54 ) puts this myth ...
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TWO EDMUND SPENSER Muiopotmos or The Fate | 20 |
THREE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Tempest | 42 |
FOUR GEORGE HERBERT The Rose | 67 |
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