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Only scattered lines survive of much that Moschus wrote, and the Fragmenta gathers these remains of the Ancient Greek bucolic poet of Syracuse, active in the second century BC. Preserved chiefly through quotation in later anthologies, the fragments include reflective verses contrasting the sea with the quiet of the countryside and glimpses of lost poems on love.
Brief as they are, these pieces round out the picture of the poet of Europa and confirm his place in the bucolic succession after Theocritus. For readers of Hellenistic poetry they offer the particular pleasure of fragments: single images polished enough to stand alone.
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