T II K 



314 



T ii r. 



1 war. God was to be consulted by 



i-i tlio earliest form i :itu- 



lillll. ' : mill till' desire Of til' 



:i kin? at the 



.tared to be an act of rebellion on 

 their ) i. 7. 



visibli 



. ruler of tin' .state, [I. 0111- 

 i 1 1. J 



'a on the . . sec. 



. . . S 



a native i,: 



of his life. lie i- .-..id to I 



- 

 pupil, w! 



with Aiatns tiie 

 and i! i- tbimed tl. 



ml T 



i'hiladclphus, and that the 

 . - 



Son). B.C. "-!H1. In' 



of that 



i- mamt'e-' ! of his poems. It has fuither 



. that he spent >ume ti. ion in 



three of his poems is 



laid in that place. Beyond theM' circumstances, which are 

 Jittle more than probabilities, we know nothing of the life 

 of Theocritus. The Alexandrine sr;auiiu :ed his 



works vi-:y highly, anil assigned to him the second 

 in the plciad of the - llauoous poets, which com- 



. Apol- 



Kmius Hhodius. Nii-ander, and one Homer, the son o! 

 Moero of Byzantium. Several (i wrote 



i extant in the scholia on his poems. There 



various ; 



which are all the 



dialect, which is sutler than the old Doric, and 



the : this new Doric is still increased in the 



: epic and Ionic 

 ] v by which 



'{Hired Hi' i j.;\i| 



. This pastoral pi. ,!ar in 



I'liusilit 



on, and the antient cutics 

 id Viijril for 



.i. I ,. 

 in the 

 \.\i,i . 



poem imita- 



tions 



i are mere 

 ' 



... xxui.. x\i\ 

 ind some porti 



'rn the work < ''some 



there doubt that they arc i i liny 



arc not without <;rcat poetical merit, if we 



XXX. 



poem . , .'.hiil i 



ire ascribed to 1 



All the poems which aiv pnxluctions of Theo- 



'o I uf liis art. 



H " I" <uae U not lew wondeiiul than hi, 



wrte for the ample I nature, and the skill with 



which he handled hw subjects. His poonu are indeed 



.onal shepherxl sonirs of Si( ily in the 



. and 



ideal i/ 



. do not know whether '1 nei 

 ud a collection ui' hi- | 

 a in the . \nthol" ' iv.. 11. 'Jil") . we 



editions uniler his name. The cditio prin 



I., only contains eighteen 



ihoue 



of .1. - 1 in IraMslaliDii. tl holia 



and in : 'I'lunna-. \Varton, 



with additional M'lmlia and nt 1, 1770. 'J 



4to.; Valckenaer, Leydea, I77i> mid I7si. The edition of 



Minn and 



u>. N still In I77:i \ :ri kenaer had 



li-hcd an excellent edition of itus. 



His com])lete edition was reprinted at Berlin, IMn. J 

 with additional 1 Toup. 



,>7iir. Isll. 



i> by K. Y. \\iistemami. (iothaand Kiiindt. 1K). in 

 vol. Svo. The intioduetory ess' .:it of 



the literature of Theocritus. The works of Tin i 



i.een translated into all the laniruaC' s i.f m 



v. There i,h transhr 



i7*'7. and a tra 

 I'olwhele. -Ito., ITKli. and m -J ?ol, ISmo., 1M1. 



.eiieh translation is that of .1. B. Claii, with cxplana- 



id eritical note-, 1'aris. IhOS. :i \nU. 4to. Th. 



a traiisla'ions | i.f ,1. 11. \ 



! \Vhter HildUirchausr 



tintr the character of the .-ritus, see 



Kickstadt. Ailnnihrati'i 



0. ; and Reinhold. I> 



is, Jena. IS]:). 



THKODOI.KT. or THKODOLITK (the woul is found 

 in both forms , is the name generally srivcn to the instru- 



>ed for measuring hon/imtal 



:nrm the theodolet consists of a divided circle, which 

 i- to be set parallel with the horizon, and a 

 which has so much motion in a vertical plane as to enable 

 | the observer to view any object which he m. 

 i or below the horizon. The derivation of the word 



. although the instrument and ii 

 lively of recent 

 divided circles, which thc\ 

 for the j>. 



spea'. ude. The (|iiad:an; \ ed in all 



aeein:' - up to the latter half of !! . ,nny. 



although Uoemer had shown by i injiie 



the superiority of the eiiln The lirxt. 



instance of a survey conducted with ; ircle, on a 



.-, so far a- 



. in I7U--H. The horizontal . 

 ler. and < -onslrncted bv the Danish 

 artist Ahl. 



Uam.-dcn linished his gival theodolite in 17KT, the 

 circle of which i- in diameter. This 



fora trianjrulation, to connect the observ:*. 

 v. ich and Pan-. \ \ e, \ hid description of it >. 

 ''unit if Ilii' (tjH'rii'i 



;Ti I/ of l-.'l a/ i/til (I 



.. ll!7-l:i(i. with four |- jirint, ina 



'hil.Traiw., 

 i the Knu 



with tin- it or with 



untieal in si/e and co' and 



I thou^ 1 minor additions andimpi. havi: 



theodolite' is still considered by the 

 i ui the si infal- 



lible instiumcnt. We believe thai the high reputation of 

 the treat theodolite depends in B treat . the 



,- with which it has heen used and pre- 

 it is ir a very line, well-divided in- 



V r.i..| p. <'ii, > :,ri.' tin i>uu> lu mcrlu. 



