Theocritus
noun
flourished c270 b.c., Greek poet.
Theocritean
-
a word derived from
Theocritus.
Example Sentences
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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not genuinely rustic; nor do they, in Theocritean fashion, attempt to render the beauty of the country from the peasant's point of view.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
As I listened to the hideous din, I could not but remember the Theocritean burial of Adonis.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
But this factitious bucolicism is pervaded by a pathos, which, like volcanic heat, has fused into a new compound the dilapidated debris of the Theocritean world.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
The rhythm which in the other Eclogues reproduces the Theocritean cadences is in this more stately and uniform, recalling those of Catullus in his longest poem.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
