theugenis

But now shalt thou abide in the house of a wise physician, who has learned all the spells that ward off sore maladies from men, and thou shalt dwell in glad Miletus with the Ionian people, to this end, that of all the townsfolk Theugenis may have the goodliest distaff and that thou mayst keep her ever mindful of her friend, the lover of song.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

Then she arose, and stole to herd her sheep; with shamefast eyes she went, but her heart was comforted within her. And he went to his herds of kine, rejoicing in his wedlock. This little piece of Aeolic verse accompanied the present of a distaff which Theocritus brought from Syracuse to Theugenis, the wife of his friend Nicias, the physician of Miletus.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

But there is safety in a spinning instrument, and all the compliments to the lady, "the dainty-ankled Theugenis," turn on her skill, and industry, and housewifery. So Louis XIV., no mean authority, called this piece of vers de societe "a model of honourable gallantry."

Andrew Lang - Letters on Literature

For the mothers of lambs in the meadows might twice be shorn of their wool in the year, with her goodwill, the dainty-ankled Theugenis, so notable is she, and cares for all things that wise matrons love. Nay, not to houses slatternly or idle would I have given thee, distaff, seeing that thou art a countryman of mine.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose