Note 1046 — Chapter VII · Corinth

Bluemner’s view that the poet meant simply natural holes in the rock may be right, but his inference that the passage is no evidence for artificial hives is absurd, especially in the light of the stone looms (ἱστοὶ λίθεοι) described in the same passage and actually quoted by Bluemner (ap. Hermann, Lehrb. Gr. Antiq.3 IV. p. 120, n. 1).