oaristys

Updated: January 25, 2026

'But thee, Theocritus, wha matches? you ask, and yourself out-match him in this wide rude region, trodden only by the rural Muse. 'Thy rural loves are nature's sel'; and the wooer of Jean Armour speaks more like a true shepherd than the elegant Daphnis of the 'Oaristys.

Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors