132 TRAITS OF FISHERMEN—DEITIES OF FISHING 



Meniscus and Diotimus (in Sappho and Alcaeus) are aged, 

 lonely, and miserably poor. They are not "white-limbed" 

 like Daphnis in The Herdsman's Offering. They play no flute, 

 nor carry the apples of Love. 



So too the circumstances, the life, the recreations of the 

 Shepherd of the Pastoral Idyll of Theocritus are as far removed 

 as can be from those of the Fisherman of the Piscatory Idyll 

 by the same author. The locus is the same. The characters 

 dwell near each other, but how dissimilar their lots 1 



