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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 623 — XII. OF OPINIONS.

Henri Van Laun translation

Tityrus is a shepherd, who, according to the first line uttered by Melibœus in Virgilʼs first “Eclogue,” is one of those men who “lay at ease under their patrimonial beech trees.”

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