A bucolic scene with two shepherds, Thyrsis and Aipolos (= Goatherd) illustrating Theocritus Idyll 1 Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή, lines 12-14. Thyrsis is standing holding a staff and gesticulates to the other sitting shepherd (Aipolos) in sunhat who listens. Goats, sheep, cows, sheepdog. Burning mountain top. Tree. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theocritus-Syracusanus-et-al-Lodewijk-Caspar-Valckenaer_MG_0683_-_detail_-_Greek_text_-_Theocritus_-_Idyll_1.jpg" title="File:Theocritus-Syracusanus-et-al-Lodewijk-Caspar-Valckenaer MG 0683 - detail - Greek text - Theocritus - Idyll 1.jpg">Greek caption</a> in running abbreviated Greek script with the text spoken by Thursis in the dialogue:<br><p>Λῇς, ποτὶ τᾶν νυμφᾶν, Αιπολε; λῇς, Αιπολε, τᾶδε καθίξας,<br>
Ω, ὡς τὸ (?) κάταντες τοῦτο (?) Γεώλοφον, αἵ τε μυρῖκαι,<br>
Συρίσδεν; τὰς δ᾽ αἶγας ἐγὼν ἐν τῷδε νομευσῶ.<br><br>
The text differs slightly from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0228%3Atext%3DId.">Perseus.tufts.edu: Theocritus Theoc. 1, Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή.</a><br>
Translation from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html">Theoi.com Theocritus Idylls1</a>:<br>
'Fore the Nymphs I pray you, master Goatherd, come now and sit ye down here by this shelving bank and these brush tamarisks and play me a tune. I’ll keep your goats the while.
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<div class="description mw-content-ltr nl" dir="ltr" lang="nl"><span class="language nl" title="Dutch"><b>Nederlands: </b></span> Landelijk tafereel met twee herders, een gravure als illustratie van een tekstuitgave  van Theocritus: Idyll 1 Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή, regel 12-14. Gesprek tussen de twee herders  Thyrsis (staand met staf en gebarend) en Aipolos (= Geitenhoeder, zittend met zonnehoed). Geiten, schapen, koeien, herdershond. Brandende bergtop. Boom. Hier spreekt Thyrsis - zie onder. De <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theocritus-Syracusanus-et-al-Lodewijk-Caspar-Valckenaer_MG_0683_-_detail_-_Greek_text_-_Theocritus_-_Idyll_1.jpg" title="File:Theocritus-Syracusanus-et-al-Lodewijk-Caspar-Valckenaer MG 0683 - detail - Greek text - Theocritus - Idyll 1.jpg">tekst</a> wijkt iets af van <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0228%3Atext%3DId.">Perseus.tufts.edu: Theocritus Theoc. 1, Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή.</a><br><p>Vertaling op <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html">Theoi.com Theocritus Idylls1</a>:<br>
'Fore the Nymphs I pray you, master Goatherd, come now and sit ye down here by this shelving bank and these brush tamarisks and play me a tune. I’ll keep your goats the while.<br></p>
(vertaling) "Bij de Nimfen verzoek ik je, meester Geitenhoeder, om hier op deze glooiende oever met tamariskstruiken te komen zitten en muziek voor me te maken. Dan pas ik op je geiten."</div>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18511836" class="extiw" title="d:Q18511836">Barent de Bakker</a>
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1779
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Peace_Palace_Library" class="extiw" title="w:en:Peace Palace Library"><span title="collection of studies in international law in The Hague, Netherlands">Peace Palace Library</span></a>
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