Viewing page 6 of 13

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

The Pan takes a haunting hold upon me; it has the genuine Greek influence secreted in its expression. You remember the little fragment by Theocritus, in which he says——

ἐγγὐς δἐ στάντες λασίας δρυάς ἄντρου ὄπισθεν 

Πάνα τὸv αίγα βάtαv όρφανίσωμες ῦπνου.

Don't you feel as if you'd like to bounce a brick off the old scamp's head? —— he looks so satisfied and evidently feels so independent of all circumstances. I often wonder what an average modern man would do were he, while strolling 

Transcription Notes:
Greek needs to be transcribed! Theocritus (born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.