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

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

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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
Alternative Names: Theocrates
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