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contending fishermen extol the charms of their mistresses, Chloris and Nisa, as the a- 

 lovely and excellent of their sex. At last Mopsus decides that both have acquitted 

 themselves well, and rewards one with a speckled shell, and the other with a branch of 

 coral. 



The third Piscatory Eclogue of Sannazarius. 



MOPSUS. 



Celadon, Mopsus, Chromis, Iolas. 



Celadon. 



Come, tell me, Mopsus, (since, as iEgon says, 

 The storm at Bauli kept you fourteen days,) 

 How you, and Chromis, and Iolas, fared, 

 While all his rage the furious south prepared. 

 Did you, while he insulted sea and waves, 

 Find any pastime in your dreary caves ? 



Mopstrs. 



What could our muses, Celadon, perform, 



Listless and torpid, midst the roaring storm ? 



While conchs untouched escaped our searching hands, 



And crabs eight footed safely kept the sands. 



Our boat was lodged in safety high ashore, 



Our nets extended hung from oar to oar ; 



Beneath our feet the hooks and baskets lay, 



And rods, and seines, and weirs obstruct our way. 



Then Chromis fine Inarime surveyed; 



" From you our skiff came hither," grieved he said; 



" (Ah, hapless exile,) while our sovereign's cause 



His youthful bands beyond the ocean draws. 



One war despatched, another soon begins, 



And lands remote the king victorious wins. 



