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LITERATURE IN SICILY
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about it; the women arc country women and go sight-seeing with all the freshness and naivete of country folk. Nearly contemporary with Theocritus was Moschus, also born at Syracuse, from whom we have four surviving pastorals, one of them a lament for the death of Bion of Smyrna, who had himself conic to Sicily to cultivate the bucolic muse.