R. J. Cholmeley, M.A., The Idylls of Theocritus, poem 25, line 196

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[196] λελίησαι. Homer has the participle only λελιημένος: we find not infrequently in the Alexandrians verbs used in parts in which they are defective in earlier writers. Thus Ap. Rhod. i. 765 has ἀκέοις (as if from ἀκέω, cf. Homeric ἀκέων): Nicand. Alex. 13 πνυθείης (akin to πεπνυμένος).

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

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