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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Sicilian shepherd and son of Hermes who was famed as a musician and reputed to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

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Examples

  • The weather continued unsettled for some days, and then it cleared up gloriously, so that Austin was able to lead what he called his Daphnis life once more.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

    Kouroi Hal Duncan 2005

  • Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

    Archive 1999-01-01 Hal Duncan 1999

  • Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed

    Notes From The Geek Show Hal Duncan 1999

  • Meanwhile, in the ancient Greek setting that we learn early-on exists inside the diamond, a simple goatherd named Daphnis is charged with heresy.

    REVIEW: The Crystal Cosmos by Rhys Hughes 2008

  • This playwright seems to be sometimes alluded to as Daphnis, sometimes under his own name.

    Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

  • After that, everyone was fully warmed up, and "Daphnis" was a radiant pleasure to end the evening.

    Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy 2010

  • The music of "Daphnis," from the very moment of the introduction with its softly unfolding chords, its far, glamorous fanfares, its human throats swollen with songs, seems to thrust open doors into the unplumbed caverns of the soul, and summon forth the stuff to shape the dream.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • Salamon Gessner, who sang of this same vale of Neto in his "Daphnis"?

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

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