Note 276 — Chapter VI · CHARACTERISTICS OF FISHERMEN IN GREECE AND ROME—POVERTY “THE BADGE OF ALL OUR TRIBE”—DEITIES OF FISHING
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Moses Browne in the introductory essay to his Angling Sports in Nine Piscatory Eclogues asserts that Servius allowed only seven of Virgil’s Bucolics to be pure pastorals, while Heinsius for similar reasons rejects all but ten of Theocritus’s Idylls.