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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.
To me it seemed absolutely Arcadian, and I thought of Daphnis and Chloe and the early world.
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.
 
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