Bion

[ bahy-on ]

/ ˈbaɪ ɒn /

flourished c100 b.c., Greek pastoral poet.

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The most famous as well as the most powerful and original of Bion's poems remaining to us is the threnody upon Adonis.
Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4|Charles Dudley Warner
The same volume also contains the poems of Bion and Moschus.
Book Repair and Restoration|Mitchell Buck
Radium has only been known to us for a few years; can we say that there is no such thing as Bion?
Science and Morals and Other Essays|Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
About their deaths she only tells us through the dirge by Moschus, that Bion was poisoned.
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus|Theocritus

Of the lives of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus there is very little known, and that little has been often repeated.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2)|John Addington Symonds