Daphnis by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 291 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677
"A shepherd and a goatherd meet in the pastures one noontide, and compliment each other upon their piping. The shepherd, Thyrsis by name, is persuaded by the other – for a cup which he describes but does not at first show – to sing him The Affliction of Daphnis, a ballad which tells how the ideal shepherd, friend not only of Nymphs and Muse, but of all the wild creatures, having vowed to his first love that she should be his last, pined and died for the love of another."
-Theocritus, Idyll 1. Thyrsis (Translated by J.M. Edmonds)
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| Daphnis by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 291 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677. |
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https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/hollar%3AHollar_k_0287
https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/hollar%3AHollar_k_0286
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