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[Glenn Scheper]

> Et in Arcadia ego ... the words appear on a scroll issuing from
> a death's head on a tomb in Arcadia. ... Death is the speaker.

> Shade had written in but struck out namely "The madman's fate."

With AF as poetic death/rebirth, phallus is scroll is tombstone.
A reflexive sacrifice is also slayer, hence Death. Hell follows.

> ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext95/bucoe10.txt
Even at 100ms/word, THE ECLOGUES by Virgil shew many AF tropes.

Dante lists Virgil an advanced tantric fellow, up to a point.

This poem lists the advantages of the Pan type over other AF,
which I recount in my Cernunnos anecdote as arising from male
discovery of pap suckling, AF juices in eyes, just one part of
an overall annointing, having spontaneously made paps moisten.
I also label it the complement to AF, healing that rift of AF.
Revelation marks it too "What are these, and whence came they?"
Prior "How long shalt thou not judge, and avenge our blood..."

 All with one accord exclaim:
 "From whence this love of thine?"
 Apollo came;
 "Gallus,
 art mad?"
 he cried,
 "thy bosom's care Another love is following."Therewithal
 Silvanus came,
 with rural honours crowned;
 The flowering fennels and tall lilies shook Before him.
 Yea,
 and our own eyes beheld Pan,
 god of Arcady,
 with blood-red juice Of the elder-berry,
 and with vermilion,
 dyed.
 "Wilt ever make an end?"
 quoth he,
 "behold Love recks not aught of it:
 his heart no more With tears is sated than with streams the
 grass,
 Bees with the cytisus,
 or goats with leaves."
 "Yet will ye sing,
 Arcadians,
 of my woes Upon your mountains,"
 sadly he replied-
 "Arcadians,
 that alone have skill to sing.
 O then how softly would my ashes rest,
 If of my love,
 one day,
 your flutes should tell!

So the Arcadians are clearly the simple, non-Pan'ic AF.
Pan, from his further gnosis, desires to instruct them.

Such Pan has an androgynous aspect, bearing comparisons
of duality, and crossed types. And the completion heals:

 But me mad love of the stern war-god holds Armed amid
 weapons and opposing foes.

 and joy to launch Cydonian arrows from a Parthian bow.-
 As if my madness could find healing thus,

Dapnhis and Pan share just the AF part of Pan's gnosis:

 Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree Had sat him down; ...
 Arcadians both,
 Ready to sing,
 and in like strain reply.

Daphnis has the usual metamorphosis/katabasis due to AF.
See the reflexive bending, spear, gnosis of uniqueness.

 MOPSUS "For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
 Ye hazels,
 bear them witness,
 and ye streams-
 When she,
 his mother,
 clasping in her arms The hapless body of the son she bare,
 To gods and stars unpitying,
 poured her plaint.
 Then,
 Daphnis,
 to the cooling streams were none That drove the pastured
 oxen,
 then no beast Drank of the river,
 or would the grass-blade touch.
 Nay,
 the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar Of Afric
 lions mourning for thy death.
 Daphnis,
 'twas thou bad'st yoke to Bacchus'
 car Armenian tigresses,
 lead on the pomp Of revellers,
 and with tender foliage wreathe The bending spear-wands.
 As to trees the vine Is crown of glory,
 as to vines the grape,
 Bulls to the herd,
 to fruitful fields the corn,
 SO THE ONE GLORY OF THINE OWN ART THOU. (My caps)

I suppose ECLOGUES is basic to your literature occupations.
There were sure lots of "shade" mentions, including final:

 These songs,
 Pierian Maids,
 shall it suffice Your poet to have sung,
 the while he sat,
 And of slim mallow wove a basket fine:
 To Gallus ye will magnify their worth,
 Gallus,
 for whom my love grows hour by hour,
 As the green alder shoots in early Spring.
 Come,
 let us rise:
 the shade is wont to be Baneful to singers;
 baneful is the shade Cast by the juniper,
 crops sicken too In shade.
 Now homeward,
 having fed your fill-
 Eve's star is rising-go,
 my she-goats,
 go.

As earlier, comparing bosom to narrow something,
here slim mallow is where a gal normally spins.
Also shade recalls the gourd shading Jonah, so
I suggest it marks AF: whether darkness marks
Pan'ic or simple AF, I am not ready to guess.
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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