R. J. Cholmeley, M.A., The Idylls of Theocritus

[39] τὶν…ἀείδων, 'singing thee, my dear sweet-apple, and myself together.'

τίν, cf. 69, is accusative; vid. Dial. § 2.

ἁμᾷ (cf. ix. 4): a Doric form for ἅμα. Ahrens, Dial. Dor. pp. 372 and 34.

γλυκύμαλον Sappho, fr. 93: “ οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ
ἄκρον ἐπ᾽ ἀκροτάτῳ: λελάθοντο δὲ μαλοδρόπηες
οὐ μὰν ἐκλελάθοντ᾽ ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἐδύναντ᾽ ἐπικέσθαι.

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