overhardy

Updated: May 29, 2025

For why, ah overbold, didst thou follow the chase, and being so fair, why wert thou thus overhardy to fight with beasts? So Cypris bewailed her, the Loves join in the lament: Woe, woe for Cytherea, he hath perished the lovely Adonis! A tear the Paphian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers.

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