THEOCRITUS, BION AND MOSCHUS RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE WITH AN
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY ANDREW LANG




LIFE OF THEOCRITUS
(From Suidas)



Theocritus, the Chian. But there is another Theocritus, the son of
Praxagoras and Philinna (see Epigram XXIII), or as some say of
Simichus. (This is plainly derived from the assumed name Simichidas
in Idyl VII.) He was a Syracusan, or, as others say, a Coan settled
in Syracuse. He wrote the so-called Bucolics in the Dorian dialect.
Some attribute to him the following works:- The Proetidae, The
Pleasures of Hope ([Greek]), Hymns, The Heroines, Dirges, Ditties,
Elegies, Iambics, Epigrams. But it known that there are three
Bucolic poets: this Theocritus, Moschus of Sicily, and Bion of
Smyrna, from a village called Phlossa.



LIFE OF THEOCRITUS
[Greek]
(Usually prefixed to the Idyls)