eucritus

Updated: May 25, 2025

Thus I sang, and sweetly smiling, as before, he gave me the staff, a pledge of brotherhood in the Muses. Then he bent his way to the left, and took the road to Pyxa, while I and Eucritus, with beautiful Amyntas, turned to the farm of Phrasidemus. There we reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, lowly strown, and rejoicing we lay in new stript leaves of the vine.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

It fell upon a time when Eucritus and I were walking from the city to the Hales water, and Amyntas was the third in our company. He set his knee stoutly against the rock, and straightway by the spring poplars and elm trees showed a shadowy glade, arched overhead they grew, and pleached with leaves of green.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose