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Bion (lived c. 100 BC)

Greek bucolic (pastoral) poet, born near Smyrna, who lived mostly in Sicily. The best of his few surviving poems is ‘Lament for Adonis’.
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The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists.
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(The poem imitates the Greek elegies, of which the earliest now preserved was the Lament by Bion for Adonis, the mythological youth beloved by Venus.
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