[446] κῆρ … σμύχουσα: 'with anguish smouldering in her heart'; cf. 762: Mosch. 4. 4, “Ἔρως δ᾽ ἔσμυχ᾽ ἐπαμοιβά”: Theocr. 3. 17, “Ἔρως … Ὄς με κατασμύχων καὶ ἐς ὀστέον ἄχρις ἰάπτει.”
νόος … νισσομένοιο: 'her soul, like a dream, fluttered haltingly in his footsteps as he went.' ἑρπύζων: literally 'crawling' cf. 4. 1289. Its use here seems to involve, as Preston says, the notion of eager, yet unavailing and painful endeavour, which the ancients associated with dreams; cf. Il. 22. 199, “ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ Οὐ δύναται φεύγοντα διώκειν κ.τ.λ.”: Aen. 12. 908, “Ac velut in somnis ... nequiquam avidos extendere cursus Velle videmur, et in mediis conatibus aegri Succidimus.” πεπότητο: cf. Od. 11. 222, “ψυχὴ δ᾽ ἠύτ᾽ ὄνειρος ἀποπταμενη πεπότηται.”This text is part of:
Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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