"Goatherd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between the Hebrew and Greek Songs are perhaps interesting enough to be worth examining in detail. In Idyll i. 24, the goatherd offers this reward to Thyrsis, if he will but sing the song ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... look down over them all and say, 'I am lord here.' Ah me! Shall I ever again cross the Col du Lion or climb the Great Tower? But there! I am old, and thrown aside. Boys whom I engaged as porters would refuse me now as their porter. Better to have died like my friend, Michel Croz, than live to be a goatherd." ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... (of a light) estingigxi, elbruli. Go over transiri. Go through trairi. Go down (ship) sxipperei. Go on foot piediri. Go on a pilgrimage pilgrimi. Goad instigilo. Goal (aim) celo. Goat kapro. Goatherd kapristo. Goblet pokalo. Goblin koboldo. God Dio. Godfather baptopatro. Godhead Diajxo. Godless malpia. Godliness sankteco. Godly sankta. Gold oro. Golden ora. Goldfinch kardelo. Goldsmith orajxisto. Goloche galosxo. Gondola gondolo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... published by the Rev. F. T. Cole in the Indian Antiquary for January 1875, p. 10, called "Toria the Goatherd and the Daughter of the Sun," a beggar's eyes are as dazzled by the Sun's daughter's beauty "as if he had ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous
... Orphic writers made him Universal God, the creator of the world.[1333] In the popular cult, however, he remained the merry patron of herds. The most satisfactory explanation of his name is that which derives it from the stem pa, 'feed'—he is then "the goatherd."[1334] The story told by Plutarch, of a voice heard crying on the coast of Epirus, "Great Pan is dead," arose from some misapprehension, but no precise explanation of its origin has been given.[1335] Poets like Pindar and Vergil, disposed to preserve and dignify the old ...
— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy
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