[107] ἐπίσκοπον εἶναι, 'to be a marksman with the arrow'; ἐπίσκοπος is the adjective, vid. Liddell and Scott. The genitive stands after it as after ἐπιστήμων or the like (ἀφροδισίων δυσέρωτες, Xen. Oec. xii. 13). Most editors now read ἐπὶ σκοπὸν εἷναι ὀιστόν, but this is an unnecessary alteration.
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The Idylls of Theocritus. R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.
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