[41] -48. In the MSS. ll. 41-43 and 45-47 are transposed each into the other's place. This is hardly tolerable. ἔνθ᾽ ὄις ἔνθ᾽ αἶγες suits Menalcas the shepherd, not Daphnis the neatherd. In line 51 Milo is the subject of Menalcas' verse; therefore l. 43 also referring to him must be given to Menalcas. [The order in the text was proposed by an anonymous critic in a review of Jacobs' edition, Allgem. Litterat. Zeitung. Oct. 27, 1808, and is now generally adopted.]
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The Idylls of Theocritus. R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.
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