The pastoral genre in fact even for Theocritus, its inventor, was always highly artificial.
甚至对于忒奥克里托斯,它的创始者来说,田园诗,也一直都是人工雕凿的。
Lucretius influenced his way of thinking, but his early poems were written in the tradition of Theocritus.
路克勒丢思影响他的思维方式,但他的早期诗歌创作的传统忒奥克里·托斯。
Or nymphs and satyrs than you or I know and later urban poets - and Theocritus was an urban poet -later urban poets like Virgil or Milton knew even less than Theocritus, we have to assume.