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Shall I see, if, with you before me, I look fixedly at the legions of clouds that cross my window an hour two three even until the night closes in? Grant but a grain of this, O Goddess, and lo! I vow to thee a troop of pipe-players upon the Ides of June. "A troop of pipe-players to Minerva on the Ides of June, if we win!" "And my household to Mars, if we have lost!"
All carried staves bound with streamers of ribbons. Following the attendants came a line of bannermen, with red flags, on which were various inscriptions in blue; then came drummers and pipe-players dressed in yellow costumes, their instruments decked with ribbons.
Some critics take the poem to be a patchwork by various hands. As beautiful Daphnis was following his kine, and Menalcas shepherding his flock, they met, as men tell, on the long ranges of the hills. The beards of both had still the first golden bloom, both were in their earliest youth, both were pipe-players skilled, both skilled in song. Then first Menalcas, looking at Daphnis, thus bespoke him.
Temporary stages were erected in the Forum or the circus, the audience at first standing, but afterwards accommodated with seats in a cavea of wood erected for the occasion. The whole show, including play, actors, and pipe-players to accompany the voices where necessary, was contracted for, like all such undertakings, on each occasion of Ludi scaenici being produced.
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