Bion was a poet of about the same period as Theocritus, but of whom little is known. He lived in Sicily (Magna Grecia) where he died, possibly poisoned. We still have seventeen fragments of his Bucolics and of Adon's Epitaph.

The following is a fragment translated by A. Lang:

"Happy are they that love, when with equal love they are rewarded. Happy was Theseus, when Pirithous was by his side, yea tho' he went down to the house of implacable Hades. Happy among hard men and inhospitable was Orestes, for that Pylades chose to share his wanderings. And he was happy, Achilles Æacides, while his darling lived,-happy was he in his death, because he avenged the dread fate of Patroclus."

(Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Golden Treasury series, p. 182)