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MOSCHUS , See also:Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian See also:Aristarchus,was See also:born at See also:Syracuse and flourished about 150 B.C . He was the author of a See also:short epic poem, See also:Europa, and a See also:pretty little See also:epigram, Love, the Runaway, imitated by Torquato See also:Tasso and See also:Ben See also:Jonson . The See also:epitaph on See also:Bion of See also:Smyrna, wrongly supposed to have been his See also:tutor, was in all See also:probability written about the See also:time of See also:Sulla (see F . Bticheler in Rheinisches Museum, See also:XXX., 1875) . The poem on See also: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 See also:editions of Bion and See also:Theocritus, and have been translated into many See also:European See also:languages . The See also:text has been edited by U. von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, in the See also:Oxford Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca (1905); there are See also:English See also:translations by J . See also:Banks in See also:Bohn's Classical Library (1853), and by See also:Andrew See also:Lang (1889), together with Bion and Theocritus . See F . Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit. i . 231 (1891), and See also:article BION .
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