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Damoetas
Damoetas,a shepherd in the Idylls of Theocritus and the Eclogues of Virgil ;
a character in Sidney's Arcadia , a base herdsman who has become a royal favourite;
an old shepherd (representing a Cambridge academic?) in Milton's Lycidas .
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