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

[48] ἐτώσια μοχθίζοντι cf. i. 38; Pindar, Ol. ii. 156: “      λάβροι
παγγλωσσίᾳ, κόρακες ὥς, ἄκραντα γαρυέμεν
     Διὸς πρὸς ὄρνιχα θεῖον:

” vid. Introd. p. 20. As this idyll belongs to the first Coan period there can be no reference as so often supposed to Apollonius. The same sentiment is expressed by Callim. ii. 105: “ ῾Ο φθόνος ᾿Απόλλωνος ἐς οὔατα λάθριος εἶπεν
οὐκ ἄγαμαι τὸν ἀοιδὸν ὃς οὐδ᾽ ὅσα πόντος ἀείδει, κ.τ.λ.

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