According to one account he was lost at sea, according to another he died at Stymphalus in arcadia, and according to a third at Leucadia, from grief at the loss by shipwreck of his baggage, containing a number of new plays which he had translated from Menander.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Robert Chambers styled it "the arcadia of Scotland," and was not Thomas of Ercildoune the "day-starre of Scottish poetry?"
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
They continued fashionable for some time for the architectural or other forms of borders to titlepages, some of them very graceful, as, for instance, that to the early folio editions of Sidney's arcadia; also for the coats of arms of the great men to whom books were dedicated.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard