"Μολπαν ται Μοισαι μοι αει ποθεοντι διδοιεν, Ταν γλυκεραν μολπαν, τας φαρμακον αδιον ουδεν."
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Quoted as an epigraph in H. F. Cary, Sonnets and Odes (1788)
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Bion of Smyrna
Bion (Βίων) was an ancient Greek poet from , probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the ' as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus. One long poem about and seventeen shorter fragments of his poetry survive.
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