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Bion (Greek: Βίων, Bíо̄n) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus.
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Blessed are they who love, if they are loved in turn.
Ill it seems that man should judge God's handiwork.
May the Muses ever give me song at my desire, dear melodious song, the sweetest physic in the world.
I be no thief nor highwayman—tis not for that I'm abroad at night—, but a lover; and lovers deserve all aid.
The unceasing drip of water, as they say,
Sleep no more, Cypris, beneath thy purple coverlet, but awake to thy misery; put on the sable robe and fall to beating thy breast, and tell it to the world, The beauteous Adonis іs dead.
Methinks we all forget that we are mortal,
μορφὰ θηλυτέραισι πέλει καλόν, ἀνέρι δ᾿ ἀλκά.
. . . But I will go my way to yonder hillside, singing low to sand and shore my supplication of the cruel Galatea; for I will not give over my sweet hopes till I come unto uttermost old age . . .
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