Note 275 — Chapter VI · CHARACTERISTICS OF FISHERMEN IN GREECE AND ROME—POVERTY “THE BADGE OF ALL OUR TRIBE”—DEITIES OF FISHING
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It is indeed a far cry from Idyll XXI. to Endymion; still here, even though it be no piscatory eclogue, the fisher Glaucus recalls his Sicilian prototype. In Book II. 337 ff., for instance,
“I touched no lute, I sang not, trod no measures; I was a lonely youth on desert shores”;
and again,
“For I would watch all night to see unfold Heaven’s Gate, and Æthon snort his morning gold Wide o’er the swelling streams, and constantly My nets would be spread out.”