INDIAN IDYLLS.

τῶν δ ̓ ὅς τις λωτοιο φάγοι μελιηδέα καρπόν,
οὐκέτ ̓ ἀπαγγεῖλαι πάλιν ἤθελεν οὐδὲ νέεσθαι,
ἀλλ ̓ αὐτοῦ βούλοντο μετ' ανδράσι Λωτοφάγοισιν
λωτὸν ἐρεπτόμενοι μενέμεν νόστου σε λαθέσθαι.

-Od. ix. 94.

"Whoso has tasted the honey-sweet fruit from the stems of the lotus, Nevermore wishes to leave it, and never once longs to go homeward; There would he stay if he could, content, with the eaters of lotus, Plucking and eating the lotus, forgetting that he was returning." -ARNOLD'S Poets of Greece

INDIAN IDYLLS

From the Sanskrit

OF THE

MAHABHARATA

BY

EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I.

AUTHOR OF

THE LIGHT OF ASIA," ETC.

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1883

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