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Theocritus (c. 310-c. 250 BC)

Greek poet. His Idylls became models for later pastoral poetry. Probably born in Syracuse, he spent much of his life in Alexandria under the Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies.
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with the perfectly sincere poems of the Greek Theocritus, who gives genuine expression to the life of actual Sicilian shepherds.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
His mental palate, indeed, was rather pagan, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from any text in Isaiah or Amos.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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