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Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose

Note 104 — IDYL XVII

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For αδέα Wordsworth and Hermann conjecture Ἄρεα. The sense would be that Eunica, who thinks herself another Cypris, or Aphrodite is, in turn, to be rejected by her Ares, her soldier-lover, as she has rejected the herdsman.

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