[1387] γειομόρος: 'the owner of a farm.' The subst. γεωμόρος always means a landowner (big or small). In 4. 1453, γειομόροι μύρμηκες, and in 1. 1214, βοὸς γεωμόρου, the adj. means 'earth-cleaving,' and it is possible that a husbandman is here called an 'earth-cleaver.'
προτάμωνται: i.e. foemen may cut it down before he has time to reap it. Ellis in his note on Cat. 64. 353, “praecerpens messor aristas”, wrongly explains προταμεῖν here of 'cutting in front of him.'This text is part of:
Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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