In 1796–1797, he published paraphrases from Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Sappho and Meleager.
See also Franz Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit. i.
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His surviving bucolic material (composed in the traditional dactylic hexameters and Doric dialect) is short on pastoral themes and is largely erotic and mythological; although this impression may be distorted by the paucity of evidence, it is also seen in the surviving bucolic of the generations after Moschus, including the work of Bion of Smyrna.
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