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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1116 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The idyls of Moschus were at first intermixed with those of Theocritus, and one or two of those ascribed to Theocritus have been, though without sufficient reason, supposed to be the productions of Moschus, as, for example, the 20th and 28th. |
 | | To judge from the pieces which are extant, Moschus was capable of writing with elegance and liveliness; but he is inferior to Bion, and comes still farther behind Theocritus. |
 | | [C., or, as Photius calls him, joannes the son of moschus, surnamed EuKparas, or, what appears to be a corruption of that, Eviratus, was first a monk in the monastery of St. Theodosius at Jerusalem, afterwards lived among the anchorites in the desert on the banks of the Jordan, and subsequently filled the office of |
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