Quoted as an epigraph in H. F. Cary, Sonnets and Odes (1788)
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Μολπαν ται Μοισαι μοι αει ποθεοντι διδοιεν, Ταν γλυκεραν μολπαν, τας φαρμακον αδιον ουδεν.
• Fragment quoted by Stobaeus, 1, 9, 3
— Bion of Smyrna
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• Fragment quoted by Stobaeus, 1, 9, 3" in the context of "Quoted as an epigraph in H. F. Cary, Sonnets and Odes (1788)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Bion of Smyrna
Bion (Βίων) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus. One long poem about Adonis and seventeen shorter fragments of his poetry survive.
About Bion of Smyrna
Bion (Βίων) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus. One long poem about Adonis and seventeen shorter fragments of his poetry survive.
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