The Idylls of Theocritus (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Idylls of Theocritus In these translations I have endeavoured to satisfy the requirements of the exacting scholar as well as those of the man of letters. To succeed in this dual aim with a verse translation is doubly hard, and I am fully sensible of the difficulty of the task I have undertaken, but, my labour having been in every sense a labour of love, and therefore of delight, I already feel myself in large measure rewarded. With regard to the metres employed, it might be urged against me that while Theocritus only uses two or three (and indeed generally only one - the dactylic hexameter), my translation employs nearly a score. My reply would be that either blank verse alone, or English dactylic hexameters alone, would 'stale the infinite variety' which quantity and cæsura give the original. The only chance for a translator of Theocritus (so it seems to me) is to vary his measures as much as possible. The principle on which I have gone is briefly this: to use blank verse for dialogue and description, anapæstic hexameters for lyric passages, and dactylic hexameters for narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.