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Meleager's Blue (Meleageria daphnis) is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in warmer Europe and the Middle East in flowery wastelands where the single generation flies from June to August.
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The Oleander Hawkmoth (Daphnis nerii) is a moth of the family Sphingidae with a wing span of between 90 and 130 mm found in southern Europe, Africa, Asia Minor and India sometimes migrating to the rest of Europe.
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Jacques Amyot was a French ecclesiastic and scholar. He was born in 1513 at Melun and died in 1593. Educated at the University of Paris and Bourges he became tutor to the sons of Henry II of France and was made bishop of Auxerre. He is best known for translating the works of some of the classical authors. His chief translations are those of Plutarch's Lives and his Morals, the romance of Theagenes and Chariclea by Heliodorus, and the Daphnis and Chloe of Longus. Sir Thomas North's English translation of Plutarch, of which Shakespeare made much use, was derived from that of Amyot.
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Salomon Gessner was a German poet and artist. He was born in 1730 at Zurich and died in 1788. In 1749 he was sent by his father to learn the business of bookselling at Berlin, but having taken a dislike to the business he maintained himself by executing landscapes. On his return to Zurich he published Daphnis, a small volume of idylls, and Tod Abels (The Death of Abel), a kind of pastoral idyll in prose. These idylls acquired for him a great reputation amongst contemporaries. For some years afterwards he devoted himself to the engraving art, in which he also became very eminent.
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Daphnis was a son of Hermes and a nymph. He was raised by Sicillian shepherds when his mother abandoned him.
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