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Idyll 28; lines 21-22; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
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“Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?”
Idyll 11, line 75; translation by Andrew Lang, from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose ([1880] 1901) p. 63.
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“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”
Idyll 6, line 19; translation by Richard Polwhele, from The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus (1810) p. 36.
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“While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.”
Idyll 4, line 42; translation by A. S. F. Gow, from Theocritus ([1950] 1952) vol. 1, p. 37.
Compare Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum [Epistle To Atticus], Book IX, 10, 4: Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est [While the sick man has life, there is hope.]
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Idyll 29; lines 27-28; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
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“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.
Idyll 15, line 61; translation by A. S. F. Gow, from Theocritus ([1950] 1952) vol. 1, p. 113.
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“The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.”
Idyll 26, line 36; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
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