¹ Through overlooking this literary feature certain critics were misled into believing that the festival had not taken place. Lawall rightly sees Theocritus' subjective approach (p. 77 ‘subjective sensations’), but does not realise that such an approach is an example of the literary feature in question, not an unparalleled phenomenon symbolising that the harvested poetry is Theocritus' own.

² On Ahrens' ‘collection bucolique’ (Idylls i–ix) and the reasons for restricting it to i–vii cf. Legrand, op. cit., p. 11–17 (Lawall calls i–vii ‘Coan collection’). More recent literature in Rostagni, , Scritti Minori II, 1 (Torino 1956) p. 214 ff.Google Scholar

³ On ‘Selbstnachahmungen’ in Leonidas cf. Geffcken, , Leon. p. 139Google Scholar; for Meleager cf. Radinger, , Meleagros, p. 42 ff.Google Scholar