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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
As bearing on the time of year of the celebration attended by Simichidas and his friends, I stated, on the authority of Miss Alice Lindsell, that the barley-harvest in Cos is normally over by the end of April; and I added that the barley-harvest ought to fix the time of the events recorded, but that the scene depicted in 131 ff. is evidently much later than April and that the modern dates do not fit T's setting. I was assuming that the threshing and winnowing of the barley, which is the occasion of the festival (155), took place immediately after it had been carried, but, as Miss Lindsell has pointed out, this assumption has no justification.
1 As might be expected, this is earlier than in Greece and a little later than in Egypt (see R.E. 6. 474).Google Scholar
2 For the dates of these phenomena see R.E. 5. 1703, 6. 474.Google Scholar
3 A.P. 9. 384. 9Google Scholar, Carmen de Mensibus 16Google Scholar (P.L.M. 5. 236 Vollmer)Google Scholar. Both, however, put the harvest in July.
4 Apples and pears ripen early or late according to the varieties (Theophr. O.P. 1. 18. 3, 4. 11. 2Google Scholar: see R.E. 1. 2702, 3. 494)Google Scholar. Βράβιλα are thought, somewhat uncertainly, to be sloes (R.E. 19. 1458)Google Scholar, but I do not know when they ripen.
5 In view of what is here said I should now state the case against Wilamowitz's λ
ον in 25 much more strongly than I did at C.Q. xxiv. 148.Google Scholar
