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Theocritus


Greek poet of the 3rd century BC, probably a Syracusan who later lived in Kos and Alexandria.
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Theocritus
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.
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Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?
Theocritus
Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides
Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.




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Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small
Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gifts are priceless all."
Theocritus
The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.
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Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.
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