"Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity. The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral... But it is e…"

"There are few images and sentiments in the Eclogues of Virgil, but what are drawn from the Idylliums of Theocritus: i…"

"If I might now venture to speak of the merits of the several pastoral writers, I would say, that in Theocritus we are…"

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

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

"Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gift…"

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

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

"That which distinguishes Theocritus from all other Poets, both Greek and Latin, and which raises him even above Virgi…"

"The Idylliums of Theocritus have something so inimitably sweet in the verse and thoughts, such a native simplicity, a…"