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MOSCHUS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 891 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MOSCHUS , Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus,was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 B.C. He was the author of a short epic poem, Europa, and a pretty little epigram, Love, the Runaway, imitated by Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson. The epitaph on
Bion
  of Smyrna, wrongly supposed to have been his tutor, was in all probability written about the time of Sulla (see F. Bticheler in Rheinisches Museum, XXX., 1875). The poem on
Megara
  (the wife of Heracles) is probably not his, but a few other pieces, undoubtedly genuine, have been preserved. His poems are nearly all in hexameters. They are usually printed in editions of
Bion
  and Theocritus, and have been translated into many European languages.
The text has been edited by U. von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, in the
Oxford
  Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca (1905); there are English translations by J. Banks in
Bohn
 's Classical Library (1853), and by Andrew Lang (1889), together with Bion and Theocritus. See F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit. i. 231 (1891), and article BION.


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