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Daphnis

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Daphnis

In Greek mythology, a Sicilian shepherd, the son of Hermes and a Sicilian nymph. He was the reputed inventor of pastoral poetry.

He was loved by a naiad, who punished him with blindness for his infidelity to her.
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I wish I could have been present unseen in that enchanted garden while you wandered hand in hand, like Daphnis and Chloe, amid the flowers.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
To me it seemed absolutely Arcadian, and I thought of Daphnis and Chloe and the early world.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
I met them one day in a back street: you know Ladislaw's look--a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this little old maid reaching up to his arm--they looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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