Look, still is the sea and still are the breezes; but the p… - Theocritus

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

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

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