They had romances and fairy lore, which their descendants could no more appreciate than an idyll of Theocritus.

他们有浪漫史和童话故事， 他们的后代无法比 Theocritus 的田园诗更能欣赏。

His mental palate, indeed, was rather pagan, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from any text in Isaiah or Amos.

事实上，他的精神品味相当异教，并且在索福克勒斯或西奥克里特斯的引述中发现了一种趣味，而这在以赛亚书或阿莫斯的任何文本中都是完全没有的。