[55] “πολλήν”, though an interesting addition to the textual material, is evidently the weaker reading. The accentuation “οἰσεῖς” is due to scribes who had been copying Theocritus. “οὔτ̓ ἂρ φυτά κτλ.”: Delos is quite treeless at the present day.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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