Theocritus
noun
flourished c270 b.c., Greek poet.
Theocritan
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a word derived from
Theocritus.
Example Sentences
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It is indeed difficult to escape the very old persuasion that a sorrow so sympathetically expressed must be more than a mere Theocritan reminiscence.
From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank
Her dark eyes were hollow, her small mouth had lost its colour, and she showed that touch of something wasting and withering that Theocritan shepherds knew in old Sicilian days.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He suggests that the vagaries of the Theocritan dialect are due to the fact that the Idyllist was a foreigner, whose native language was "probably Hebrew or Syriac."
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
In his later books, Maspero has tacitly withdrawn his assertion of close Egyptian similarity, and it would be well if an equally frank withdrawal were made by the advocates of a close Theocritan parallel.
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
What rest more remedial than to sit with Amaryllis in the shade, and, with a sixth sense, read the wordless Theocritan idyl of the gold-bannered blue mountains marching orderly into the dormitories of the night?
From Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry
