Pan, Echo, and the Satyr | Pan loved his neighbour Echo; but that child

by Moschus (flourished 150 BCE)

Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Ἤρατο Πὰν Ἀχῶς τᾶς γείτονος, ἤρατο δ̓...

Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)

Ἤρατο Πὰν Ἀχῶς τᾶς γείτονος, ἤρατο δ̓ Ἀχὼ 
σκιρτατᾶ Σατύρω, Σάτυρος δ̓ ἐπεμήνατο Λύδᾳ. 
ὡς Ἀχὼ τὸν Πᾶνα, τόσον Σάτυρος φλέγεν Ἀχώ, 
καὶ Λύδα Σατυρίσκον: Ἔρως δ̓ ἐσμύχετ̓ ἀμοιβᾷ.
5ὅσσον γὰρ τήνων τις ἐμίσεε τὸν φιλέοντα, 
τόσσον ὁμῶς φιλέων ἠχθαίρετο, πάσχε δ̓ ἃ ποίει. 
ταῦτα λέγω πᾶσιν τὰ διδάγματα τοῖς ἀνεράστοις: 
στέργετε τὼς φιλέοντας, ἵν̓ ἢν φιλέητε φιλῆσθε.

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Confirmed with Moschus. The Greek Bucolic Poets. J. M. (John Maxwell) Edmonds. William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam's Sons. London; New York. 1919, Poem 5.

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894) , no title, appears in Hésiode: Hymnes orphiques. Théocrite. Bion. Moskhos. Tyrtée. Odes anacréontiques, in Moskhos, in Idylles, no. 6, first published 1869 ENG ; composed by Albert Roussel.

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ENG English (Percy Bysshe Shelley) , "Pan, Echo, and the Satyr"

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Pan, Echo, and the Satyr

Language: English after the Greek (Ελληνικά)

Pan loved his neighbour Echo; but that child
  Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;
The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild
  The bright nymph Lyda: -- and so three went weeping.
As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr;
  The Satyr, Lyda: -- and so love consumed them. 
And thus -- to each which was a woful matter -- 
  To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;
For, in as much as each might hate the lover,
  Each, loving, so was hated. -- Ye that love not,
Be warned -- in thought turn this example over,
  That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.

Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 1, London, John Slark, 1881, page 293, in a section titled From Moschus.

Note: modern spelling would change "woful" to "woeful" (line 7)

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Pan, Echo, and the Satyr" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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