in ancient poetry, properly signifies any poem of moderate extent, without considering the subject. But as the collection of the poems of Theocritus was called Idyllia, and the pastoral pieces being by far the best in that collection, the term Idyllion seems to be now appropriated to pastoral pieces.

an island of France, in Provence, and the most eastern of the three before the harbour of Marseilles. It is well fortified, and its port is one of the best in the Mediterranean.