DAPHNIS  , the legendary See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of the shepherds of See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, and reputed inventor of bucolic See also:

• POETRY

poetry . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief authorities for his See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story are Diodorus Siculus, See also:

• AELIAN (AELIANUS TACTICUS)
• AELIAN (CLAUDIUS AELIANUS)

Aelian and See also:

• THEOCRITUS

Theocritus . According to his countryman Diodorus (iv.84), and Aelian ( See also:

• VAR

Var . Hist., x.18), Daphnis was the son of See also:

• HERMES
• HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831)

Hermes (in his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the shepherd-See also:

• GOD

god) and a Sicilian nymph, and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born or exposed and found by shepherds in a See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

grove of laurels (whence his name.) He was brought up by the See also:

• NYMPHS

nymphs, or by shepherds, and became the owner of flocks and herds, which he tended while playing on the See also:

• SYRINX (ovpryE)

syrinx . When in the first See also:

• BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

bloom of youth, he won the See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection of a nymph, who made him promise to love none but her, threatening that, if he proved unfaithful, he would lose his See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye-sight . He failed to keep his promise and was smitten with See also:

• BLINDNESS

blindness . Daphnis, who endeavoured to See also:

• CONSOLE (a French form, supposed to be an abbreviation of consolide, from Lat. consolidare, to strengthen)

console himself by playing the See also:

• FLUTE

flute and singing shepherds' songs, soon afterwards died . He See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell from a cliff, or was changed into a See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock, orswas taken up to See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

heaven by his See also:

• FATHER

father Hermes, who caused a See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of See also:

• WATER

water to gush out from the spot where his son had been carried off . Ever afterwards the Sicilians offered sacrifices at this spring as an expiatory offering for the youth's See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• DEATH

death . There is little doubt that Aelian in his See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account follows See also:

• STESICHORUS (c. 640–555 B.C.)

Stesichorus (q.v.) of See also:

• HIMERA

Himera, who in like manner had been blinded by the vengeance of a woman (See also:

• HELEN

Helen) and probably sang of the sufferings of Daphnis in his recantation . Nothing is said of Daphnis's blindness by Theocritus, who dwells on his amour with Nails; his victory over Menalcas in a poetical competition; his love for Xenea brought about by the wrath of See also:

• APHRODITE

Aphrodite; his wanderings through the See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods while suffering the torments of unrequited love; his death just at the moment when Aphrodite, moved by compassion, endeavours (but too See also:

• LATE

late) to See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save him; the deep sorrow, shared by nature and all created things, for his untimely end (Theocritus i. vii. viii.) . A later See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend identifies Daphnis with a Phrygian hero, and makes him the teacher of See also:

• MARSYAS

Marsyas .

The legend of Daphnis and his early death may be compared with those of See also:

• NARCISSUS

Narcissus, See also:

• LINUS

Linus and See also:

• ADONIS

Adonis—all beautiful youths cut off in their See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime, typical of the luxuriant growth of vegetation in the spring, and its sudden withering away beneath the scorching summer See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun . See F . G . See also:

• WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

Welcker, Kleine Schriften zur griechischen Litteraturgeschichte, i . (1844); C . F . See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann, De Daphnide Theocriti (1853); R . H . Klausen, See also:

• AENEAS

Aeneas and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Penaten, i . (1840) ; R . Reitzenstein, Epigramm and Skolion (1893) ; H . W .

See also:

• PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING (1796-1859)

Prescott in Harvard Studies, x . (1899); H . W . Stoll in See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; and G . Knaack in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopddie .