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utcumque: whensoever, as soon as, when once. Cf. 3. 4. 29; 1. 35. 23; 2. 17. 11; 4. 4. 35; Epode 17. 52.—Tyndari: Tyndaris was doubtless a fictitious name. Cf. Pyrrha (1. 5. 3), Lydia (1. 8. 1), Leuconoe (1. 11. 2).—fistula: the pipe of Pan (σύριγξ; cf. Verg. Ecl. 2. 32; Tibull. 2. 5. 31) heard by the imaginative shepherds of Lucretius, 4. 586: et genus agricolum late sentiscere quom Pan | . . . unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hiantis | fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam. Mart. 9. 61. 12. Cf. Mrs. Browning's 'What was he doing, the great god Pan?'—dulci: 'listening to thy sweet pipings' (Shelley, Hymn of Pan).


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