R. J. Cholmeley, M.A., The Idylls of Theocritus, poem 16, line 83

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[83] ᾿Εφυραίων. Ephyra is the old name of Corinth; of which city Syracuse was a colony: cf. xv. 91.

κούρη Persephone. ματρί Demeter; the special divinities of Sicily. Bacchyl. iii. 1: “ ἀριστοκάρπου Σικελίας κρέουσαν
Δάματρα ἰοστέφανόν τε κούραν ὕμνει.

” Cf. Pind. Ol. vi. 160 where Ζεὺς Αἰτναῖος is added as a third to the gods of Syracuse.

The Idylls of Theocritus. R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.

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