Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.
Idyll - translation Richard Polwhele - The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus - 1810.
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.
Idyll - translation A. S. F. Gow - Theocritus - 1950, 1952.
While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
Theocritus - 1950, 1952 - Idyll - translation A. S. F. Gow.
The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.
Idyll - translation C. S. Calverley - Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?
Idyll - translation Andrew Lang - Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose - 1880, 1901.
Idyll - translation C. S. Calverley - Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
Idyll - translation C. S. Calverley - Theocritus, translated into English Verse.