sicelidas

Updated: June 27, 2025

But come, for the way and the day are thine alike and mine, come, let us vie in pastoral song, perchance each will make the other delight. For I, too, am a clear- voiced mouth of the Muses, and they all call me the best of minstrels, but I am not so credulous; no, by Earth, for to my mind I cannot as yet conquer in song that great Sicelidas the Samian nay, nor yet Philetas.

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