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.

的森林之神），忒奥克里托斯知道的不比你我或是后来的,都市诗人多--忒奥克里托斯就是个都市诗人,-后来的都市诗人像维吉尔和弥尔顿,我们得假定，对这些知道的就比忒奥克里托斯还少了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I actually thought it was hard to understand, just what was happening, the action part of the story. It might have been that I read it too quickly. Uh huh. Harder than "Menelaiad" to understand? No.

事实上，我认为它很难理解，就是到底发生了什么，即故事中的动作部分，也可能是我读得太快的缘故,所以不太理解罢，比《梅尼洛斯》更难懂吗，不是的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选