Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 20, 2025
The verdict of the insect is confirmed by the negative testimony of the ancient classics; the haricot never appears on the table of the Greek or Roman peasant. In the second Eclogue of Virgil Thestylis prepares the repast of the harvesters: Thestylis et rapido fessis messoribus æstu Allia serpyllumque herbas contundit olentes.
And finally is not the whole question answered in Theocritus' unparalleled poem, "the Sorceress?" We see the poor love-lorn girl and her old woman-servant, Thestylis, cowering over the fire above which the bird supposed to possess the power of bringing back the faithless Delphis is sitting in his wheel. Simoetha has learnt many spells and charms from an Assyrian, and she tries them all.
Hail, awful Hecate! to the end be thou of our company, and make this medicine of mine no weaker than the spells of Circe, or of Medea, or of Perimede of the golden hair. My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love! Lo, how the barley grain first smoulders in the fire, nay, toss on the barley, Thestylis! Miserable maid, where are thy wits wandering?
The Thestylis of the past did not think of providing it because she did not know it. The same author shows us Tityrus offering a night's hospitality to his friend Meliboeus, who has been driven from his property by the soldiers of Octavius, and goes limping behind his flock of goats. We shall have, says Tityrus, chestnuts, cheese, and fruits.
In the first act we find Laurinda unable or unwilling to decide between her rival lovers, and her endeavours to play them off one against the other afford some of the most amusing scenes of the piece. Learning from Thestylis of Amarillis' love for Damon, she determines on a trick whereby she hopes to make her choice without appearing to slight either of her suitors.
Sannazaro wrote "Arcadia" in prose and verse; Tasso and Guarini wrote "Favole Boschareccie," or Sylvan Dramas; and all nations of Europe filled volumes with Thyrsis and Damon, and Thestylis and Phyllis. Philips thinks it "somewhat strange to conceive how, in an age so addicted to the Muses, pastoral poetry never comes to be so much as thought upon."
First the goddess directs the assembled shepherds to inscribe the words, 'The love whom Thestylis hath slain, as the epitaph of the now dead Colin. When these have left the stage she turns to Paris: Sweet shepherd, didst thou ever love? Paris. Lady, a little once.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking