Excerpt from The Greek Pastoral Poets: Theocritus Bion MoschusFailing health and the pressure of necessary work have prevented the Translator from bestowing upon the present Edition so thorough a revision as he could have desired. He has been compelled to commit to a friend the correction of the press, and blemishes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.