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
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 Pattison, Mark
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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
If she had lived in old Sicilian days, she would have made a waxen image like the Theocritean sorceress, and put it by the fire, that as it wasted, so George might waste.
From Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
It is not an Italy in Theocritean colors, like the Italy of Virgil's Bucolics, but the Italy of Horace's own time, the Italy of his own birth and experience, and the Italy of today.
From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant
