[858] 'the juice of this, like to the dark sap of a mountain-oak, she gathered in a Caspian shell, to use it as a drug.' For the constr., which Haupt (quoted by Ellis on Cat. 64. 238) shows to be peculiarly Alexandrian, cf. 1294: Theocr. 12. 8, σκιερὴν δ᾽ ὑπὸ φηγὸν Ἠελίου φρύγοντος ὁδοιπόρος ἔδραμον ὥς τις: Hor. A.P. 458, “Hic ... Si veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps In puteum foveamve.”
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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