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Daphnis (dăf`nĭs), in Greek mythology, shepherd, the son of Hermes and a nymph. He was unfaithful to a nymph who loved him, and in revenge she blinded him. He tried to comfort himself by playing melancholy songs upon the shepherd's pipes, and his friends lamented for him in song. Daphnis was revered as the inventor of pastoral music. Daphnis shepherd; invented pastoral music to console himself. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 72; Jobes, 414]
See : Music Daphnis afraid of causing pain, does not deflower Chloë. [Gk. Lit.: Daphnis and Chloë, Magill I, 184] See : Noblemindedness Daphnis Sicilian shepherd-flautist; invented bucolic poetry. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I:326] See : Pastoralism Daphnis creator of bucolic poetry. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 75] See : Poetry Daphnis guards sheep; creator of bucolic poetry. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 75] See : Shepherd |
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| I wish I could have been present unseen in that enchanted garden while you wandered hand in hand, like Daphnis and Chloe, amid the flowers. To me it seemed absolutely Arcadian, and I thought of Daphnis and Chloe and the early world. I met them one day in a back street: you know Ladislaw's look--a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this little old maid reaching up to his arm--they looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy. |
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