 This famous idyl should rather, perhaps, be called a mimus. // describes the visit paid by two Syracusan women residing in Alexandria, to the festival of the resurrection of Adonis. The festival is given by Arsinoe, wife and sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus,...  Theocritus, Bion and Moschus - Page 72by Theocritus - 1880 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hyde Appleton (ed.) - Greek poetry - 1893 - 420 pages
...visit paid by two Syracusan women residing in Alexandria to the festival of the Resurrection of Adonis. Nothing can be more gay and natural than the chatter...more in two thousand years than the song of birds." — ANDREW LANG. This hole that he calls house, at the world's end. 'T was all to spite me, and to... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - English poetry - 1893 - 420 pages
...Syracusan women residing in Alexandria to the festival of the Resurrection of Adonis. Nothing can he more gay and natural than the chatter of the women,...more in two thousand years than the song of birds." — ANDREW LANG. This hole that he calls house, at the world's end. 'T was all to spite me, and to... | |
 | Margaret Warner Morley - Bee culture - 1899 - 436 pages
...go together to the festival, and as the translator, Andrew Lang, in the introduction truly says, " Nothing can be more gay and natural than the chatter...more in two thousand years than the song of birds." Not wax images alone were used at the festival of Adonis, which at its termination was a veritable... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 pages
...Ptolemy Philadclphus, and the poem cannot have been written earlier than his marriage, in BC 266 (?) Nothing can be more gay and natural than the chatter...more in two thousand years than the song of birds. Gorgo — Is Praxinoe' at home ? Praxinoe — Dear Gorgo, how long it is since you have been here !... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...Ptolemy Philadelphus, ani1 the poem cannot have been written earlier than his marriage, in BC 266 (?) Nothing can be more gay and natural than the chatter...more in two thousand years than the song of birds. Gorgo — Is Praxinoe at home ? Praxino£ — Dear Gorgo, how long it is since you have been here 1... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 442 pages
...and the poem cannot have been written earlier than his marriacie, in BC 2GG (?) Nothing can be innre gay and natural than the chatter of the women, which...more in two thousand years than the song of birds. Gorgo — Is Praxinoe at home? Praxinoe — Dear Gorgo, how long it is since you have been here ! She... | |
 | Theocritus - 1909 - 268 pages
...Ptolemy Philadelphus, and the poem cannot have been written earlier than his marriage, in 266 B. c. [?] Nothing can be more gay and natural than the chatter...ladies described the spectacle of the Isthmian games. Cargo. Is Praxinoe at home ? Praxinoe. Dear Gorgo, how long it is since you have been here ! She is... | |
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