Theocritus

[ thee-ok-ri-tuhs ]

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noun

Theocritus

/ θɪˈɒkrɪtəs; θɪˌɒkrɪˈtiːən /

Theocritus?310 bc?250 bcMGreekWRITING: poet ?310–?250 bc , Greek poet, born in Syracuse. He wrote the first pastoral poems in Greek literature and was closely imitated by Virgil

Then began for these four people one of those existences of which every man has dreamed in reading Virgil or Theocritus.

Spenser has followed both Virgil and Theocritus in the charms which he employs for curing Britomartis of her love.

He blushed at it like a maiden lady, in spite of its having a parallel in a beautiful idyll of Theocritus.

It seems to be the name of a genus of flowering plants, and also the name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.

Menander Euripides Theocritus Thucydides was playing close by the pasture-bars.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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