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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek poet who composed the earliest known pastoral poems.
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Examples
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The one I particularly allude to in Theocritus is in his "Epigrams," I think in the Fourth.
Rural Hours 1887
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In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the
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In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the
Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley, Mary W 1839
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In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Milon replies with the song of Lityerses -- a string, apparently, of popular rural couplets, such as Theocritus may have heard chanted in the fields.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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(London, 1709), written in emulation of Virgil and Theocritus (in which Alexis appears).
Letter 68 2009
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Imitating the Greek Bucolica ( "on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Imitating the Greek Bucolica ( "on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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In 'Idylls IV, written by the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, 3rd century BC, Corydon says to his fellow herdsman:' Be comforted.
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