[11] 'And hide on their chill knees once more their patient head' (Calv.). The poems are personified and represented as begging from house to house, returning empty-handed and blaming their master for their fruitless journey, and sitting dejected, head on hand, till they are sent forth again.
γονάτεσσι is an unexampled form. Homer uses γούνεσσι or γούνασι: so δούρεσσι (Hartung ψυχραῖς ἐν κονίῃσι). For the imagery cf. Cebes, Tabula 9 Λύπη…τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐν τοῖς γόνασιν ἔχουσα (Renier).Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
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The Idylls of Theocritus. R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.
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