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This is a translation of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, from the text of Kiessling.Literally translated into English prose, by The Rev. J. Banks, M.A. with metrical versions by J.M. Chapman, M.A.," embossed blue cloth binding, "Bohn's Classical Library" series,

Tyrtaeus is an elegiac poet of the seventh century B. C. He was probably a Spartan, since he was a general. He led the Spartains in the second Messenian War and helped take Messene. That is, he has experience as a commander and a fighter.

Tyrtaeus (also Tyrtaios, Greek: ???ta???) was a Greek elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC. it is generally admitted that Tyrtaeus flourished during the second Messenian war (c. 650 BC)--a period of remarkable musical and poetical activity at Sparta, when poets like Terpander and Thaletas were welcomed--that he not only wrote poetry but served in the field, and that he endeavoured to compose the internal dissensions of Sparta (Aristotle, Politics, v. 6) by inspiring the citizens with a patriotic love for their fatherland.

The surviving fragments of Tyrtaeus are all elegiac dealing with the Spartan constitution and military virtue. Elegy was normally accompanied by a pipe player. The work of the earliest elegists, Callinus, Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus was suitable for performance on military campaigns and at parties.

The idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, and The warsongs of Tyrtaeus. Literally translated into English prose, by the Rev. J. Banks… With metrical versions by J. M. [read Matthew James] Chapman… London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. xxiv, 343, [1]p., frontis. (Bohn’s Classical Library)

The Rev. J. Banks afterward changed his name to Davies. “The war-songs of Tyrtæus. Translated by the Rev. R. Polwhele” -- p. [337]-343. Translations by the Rev. Richard Polwhele first appeared as The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus, translated from the Greek into English verse. To which are added, dissertations and notes, by the Rev. Richard Polwhele, Exeter, R. Thorn, 1786. Matthew James Chapman’s translation first published as The Greek Pastoral Poets, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Done into English by M. J. Chapman. [With biographical notices and notes.] London, James Fraser, 1836.