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[222] ἄορά γ̓. The common reading “ἄορας” is open to the objections (1) that the noun “ἄορ” is only known as a neuter, and (2) that scansion of the first a as long is a metrical licence only allowable in forms like “ἄορα” and “ἄορι”, which cannot otherwise be used in the hexameter (Schulze, Quaest. Ep. p. 207). Some would read “ἄορα”, with hiatus in the bucolic diaeresis: but the γε seems in place here.

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