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

[15] 15, 16 'For he had on his shoulders a yellow skin from a shaggy thick-haired goat.'

κνακόν vid. iii. 5.

ἐκ is superfluous, as in ix. 10.

λασίοιο δασύτριχος two epithets without conjunction, and practically synonymous; vid. Lobeck on Ajax 708: Odyss. vii. 34 νηυσὶ θοῇσι, ὠκείῃσι: h. Apoll. 107 ποδήνεμος ὠκέα: h. Hermes, 171 πλούσιον ἀφνειὸν πολυλήιον.

ὤμοισι is locative dative, cf. ii. 121.

With the whole cf. the description of Paris in Coluthus, 107: “ καί τις ὀρεσσαύλοιο δορὴ μετόπισθε χιμαίρης
ἐκκρεμὲς ᾐώρητο καὶ αὐτῶν ἥπτετο μηρῶν:
ποιμενίη δ᾽ ὑπέκειτο βοῶν ἐλάτειρα καλαῦροψ.

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