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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.


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

Idyll - translation C. S. Calverley - Theocritus, translated into English Verse.