- theme. The
respondent (
Menalcas) must
match the leader's
convention but, in some way, turn its
content around." - 1
Menalcas,
meeting the
herdsman Damoetas...
- two men
exchange insults and then
Damoetas challenges Menalcas to a
singing competition.
Menalcas accepts the challenge,
offering some
decorated cups as...
- that
Menalcas (i.e. Virgil) had
secured the
safety of the
district by his poetry, but
Moeris replies that, so far from that
being so, he and
Menalcas himself...
-
musician Mopsus,
Menalcas suggests they
should sing together.
Perhaps they
should sit
under the elm trees.
Mopsus admits he's
junior to
Menalcas, but all the...
-
characters of this
dialogue are the
mythical personages Daphnis a
cowherd and
Menalcas a shepherd, and an
unnamed goatherd who
plays umpire in
their contest of...
-
Cyanophrys amyntor (Cramer, 1775)
Synonyms Papilio amyntor Cramer, 1775
Papilio menalcas Cramer, 1779 (preocc. Poda, 1761)
Thecla caramba Clench, 1944
Thecla amyntor...
-
blindness by Theocritus, who
dwells on his
amour with Nais; his
victory over
Menalcas in a
poetical competition; his love for
Xenea brought about by the wrath...
- of
Virgil in a
conversation between the
shepherds Menalcas and Damoetas. In the p****age,
Menalcas is
lamenting the poor
health of his stock: "What eye...
-
bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Gr**** poet Theocritus.
Daphnis and
Menalcas, at the
bidding of the poet, sing the joys of the
neatherds and of the...
- (Lozere). —
menalcas Frr. (=
epidolus Frr.) (81 g) is a form from
Anterior Asia (or a
distinct species?) [now full
species Polyommatus menalcas (Freyer,...
