The popular love-poetry, if it existed, has perished and left
no traces; henceforth, for the five centuries that elapsed till the
birth of Provencal and Italian poetry, love lay voiceless, as though
entranced and entombed.
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[1] Cf. Il. iii. 156; Anth. Pal. ix. 166.
[2] Il. i. 298.
[3] Il. xxiv. 130.
[4] Il. xxii. 126-8.
[5] Od. vi. 185.
[6] {ear umnon}, Anth. Pal. vii. 12.
[7] Vopisc. Aurel. c. 29.
[8] Frag. 33 Bergk.
[9] Fragg. 93, 102, 106 Bergk.
[10] ll. 781, foll.
[11] ll. 332, foll.
[12] Theocr. i. 85.
[13] ll. 105-110 of this poem set beside Sappho, Fr. ii. ll. 9-16,
Bergk, are a perfect example of the pastoral in contrast with the
lyrical treatment.
[14] App. Plan. 210.
[15] Anth. Pal. xii. 158, {soi me, Theokleis, abropedilos Eros gumnon
upestoresen}.
[16] Ibid. xii. 109; cf. v. 163, 172; xii. 154.
[17] Ibid. xii. 132, 164.
[18] Ibid. xii. 167.
[19] Ibid. v. 214.
[20] Ibid. v. 177.
[21] Ibid. v. 225.
[22] Ibid. v. 155.
[23] Ibid. xii. 157.
[24] Anth. Pal. xii. 47.
[25] Ibid. v. 177.
[26] Ibid. v. 176, 180; xii. 72.
[27] Ibid. v. 136, 147.
[28] Ibid. v. 147, 198.
[29] Ibid. v. 241; cf. Passionate Pilgrim, xiv., xv.
[30] App. Plan. 278.
VII
Closely connected with the passion of love as conceived by Greek
writers is a subject which continually meets us in Greek literature,
and which fills so large a part of the Anthology that it can hardly be
passed over without notice.
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