![]() Their style is very refined, the sentiments soft and sentimental, and his versification (he uses the hexameter exclusively) is very fluent and elegant. Some of his idyls, as his poems are usually called, are extant entire, but of others we have only fragments. 82, &c.) but we can now form only a partial judgment on the spirit and style of his poetry, on account of the fragmentary condition in which his works have come down to us. shepherds' and love-songs, are beautifully described by Moschus (iii. With respect to the relation of master and pupil between Bion and Moschus, we cannot say anything with certainty, except that the resemblance between the productions of the two poets obliges us to suppose, at least, that Moschus imitated Bion and this may, in fact, be all that is meant when Moschus calls himself a disciple of the latter. He died of poison, which had been administered to him by several persons, who afterwards received their well-deserved punishment for the crime. ![]() 17, &c.) intimates, is uncertain, since it may be that Moschus mentions those countries only because he calls Bion the Doric Orpheus. Whether he also visited Macedonia and Thrace, as Moschus (iii. Moschus states, that Bion left his native country and spent the last years of his life in Sicily, cultivating bucolic poetry, the natural growth of that island. ![]() 96, &c.) His flourishing period must therefore have very nearly coincided with that of Theocritus, and must be fixed at about B. The time at which he lived can be pretty accurately determined by the fact, that he was older than Moschus, who calls himself the pupil of Bion. Θεόκριτος.) AH that we know about him is the little that can be inferred from the third Idyl of Moschus, who laments his untimely death. Of Smyrna, or rather of the small place of Phlossa on the river Meles, near Smyrna. 8, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18.) Some think that Bion of Soli is the same as Caecilius Bion. 1) mentions Bion of Soli among the writers on agriculture and Pliny refers to the same or similar works, in the Elenchi to several books. Dindorf) quotes a statement respecting the history of Assyria, is uncertain. 26) quotes a tradition respecting the Amazons, and from whom Agathias (ii. ![]() Whether he is the same as the one from whom Plutarch ( Thes. 58) as the author of a work on Aethiopia ( Αἰθιοπικά), of which a few fragments are preserved in Pliny (vi. Of Soli, is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (iv. 58.) He is probably the same as the one whom Strabo (i. He wrote both in the Ionic and Attic dialects, and was the first who said that there were some parts of the earth in which it was night for six months, while the remaining six months were one uninterrupted day. A mathematician of Abdera, and a pupil of Democritus. 267), that one of these was an abridgement of the work of the ancient historian, Cadmus of Miletus.Ģ. 58) as the author of two works which he does not specify but we must infer from Clemens of Alexandria ( Strom. He is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (iv. Of Proconnesus, a contemporary of Pherecydes of Syros, who consequently lived about B.
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