Word: theocritus
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...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
...translation of the Iliad by Rieu is also coming; so are Sophocles, Xenophon, Theocritus and Tacitus. Penguin has entrusted mystery writer Dorothy Sayers with The Divine Comedy. Turgenev, Gorki and Ibsen will also get badly needed fresh coats of English...
...Theocritus called Beauty "an ivory mischief...
Donning the mask of Theocritus, and preceded by three Yard cops playing on the pipes of Pan, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Chief of the Yard Police, Hawkshaw, big game hunter, and four-letterman extraordinary, disporting himself in true pastoral tradition, yesterday added a cow to the trophies that grace the Apted Trophy Room...
...there, too, that Mr. Moggs gave Higbie Chaffinch a copy of Treasure Island, whose author, one Stevenson, Higbie could not recall among the illustrious company-Cicero, Seneca, Theocritus, Tibullus, sweet Petronius-in whose service his years had been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person...