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For as he might speak with you among the flocks, a more abundant supply comes forth than you might be harmed by, not only in summer but even in the snow Referring to Virgil, Eclogue 2.22: "My fresh milk fails not in summer nor in winter.". And this is much better expressed than by Theocritus A Greek poet from Sicily (c. 300 BC), the inventor of pastoral poetry. For that poet says milk is prepared not by choice but by necessity. It is no less significant if someone offers you cheese; it is even more laudable if one offers what is called colostrum The first form of milk produced by mammals; here used as a term of rustic wealth by this sweet name original: "hoedezo", likely from the Greek "hēdys" for sweet, which the editors seem to have noted. For they do not assign the feminine gender? well to this verse, poorly distinguishing the phrase milked twice original: "bis mulctum" captured?, where our Virgil original: "vir noster"; a common respectful way for commentators to refer to the author says: "new milk does not fail me in summer nor in the cold season," meaning it is always plentiful.

Amphion of Dirce on Actaea Referring to Eclogue 2.24: "Amphion Dircaeus in Actaeo Aracyntho". This is understood because Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Jupiter and Antiope. But Zethus was a man of the countryside, whereas Amphion was so skilled in the musical arts that he moved? the walls and the people of Thebes with his song. The term Dircean is said to come from the Greek for the moon The commentator is likely confused here; Dirce was a famous fountain in Thebes, from which we ought to understand the "coastal arts," as they say that in the solitary land of Evander The hero who founded the city on the site of future Rome there was a shore, though not specifically at Athens. Although the arts were first brought to Athens, the arts are often said to be received at Aracynthus A mountain on the border of Boeotia and Attica near Athens. This is not because they were discovered at Athens, but to show the lack of skill of the country folk. Where Theocritus speaks to express an infinite simplicity, he says many things differently than a voice normally would, using this name for the place.

Oaxis must certainly be understood as a river Eclogue 2.66 refers to the "rapid Oaxis", although it is also a mountain, as we said above. "Nor am I so ugly..." original: "Nec sum adeo informis"; Eclogue 2.25. In truth, while the sea was calm, he looked at himself in the ocean. For a person to see that they are not deformed by nature, he did not want to call himself "most beautiful," but rather used the modest phrase "not ugly" while standing on the shore.

It may seem that this could happen through true natural causes, but he has followed Theocritus, who speaks well regarding the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant who, in Theocritus's Idyll 6, also looks at his reflection in the sea. That is, concerning him who is shaggy? or who has a giant eye—the Cyclops—or perhaps because it is a river in the first place.