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3rd-century BCE Greek poet

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Theocritus (fl. c. 270 BC) was a Greek poet of the 3rd century BC, probably a Syracusan who later lived in Kos and Alexandria. He invented the genre of pastoral poetry.

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Native Name: Θεόκρῐτος • Θεόκριτος

Alternative Names: Theocrates

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Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides
Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

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."

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

ἐς Τροίαν πειρώμενοι ἦνθον ᾿Αχαιοί, καλλίστα παίδων: πείρᾳ θην πάντα τελεῖται.

Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?

Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.

τάχ᾽ αὔριον ἔσσετ᾽ ἄμεινον ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες

Look, still is the sea and still are the breezes; but the pain in my heart is not still.

ἠνίδε σιγῇ μὲν πόντος, σιγῶντι δ᾽ ἀῆται
ἁ δ᾽ ἐμὰ οὐ σιγῇ στέρνων ἔντοσθεν ἀνία