Note 3 — PASTORAL VIII.[1] DAMON, ALPHESIBŒUS.
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This intercalary line (as it is called by the commentators) which seems to be intended as a chorus or burden to the song, is here made the last of a triplet, that it may be as independent of the context and the verse in the translation as it is in the original.—Mænalus was a mountain of Arcadia.