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Herodas. Mimiambi. Ed. I. C. Cunningham. Oxford: the Clarendon Press. 1971. Pp. x + 248. £4·00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Frederick Williams
Affiliation:
University of Southampton

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1972

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References

1 Cf. Kirk, G. S.: Heraclitus, The Cosmic Fragments (Cambridge 1954), pp. 130–1Google Scholar.

2 I hope shortly to deal with such questions in a monograph on the Kunstsprache of Theocritus.

3 Quintilian's precept (Inst. Or. X i 26) applies as much to textual as to literary criticism.

4 C. modestly cedes this task to W. G. Arnott (p. v); but Arnott's perceptive and entertaining paper (G & R xviii (1971), 121–32) is only a sample of what could be done. C. has neglected an excellent opportunity here.

5 Cf. now Killeen, J. F.'s note (JHS xci (1971) 139150CrossRefGoogle Scholar): his interpretation of ii 12 is far superior to C.'s.

6 This occurrence is not noted in Wellauer's Index Verborum to his 1828 edition (reprinted separately 1970): a full and accurate index to Apollonius is a desideratum in Alexandrian studies.

7 Despite Headlam, 's warning (CR xviii (1904) 311Google Scholar, n. 2): ‘in Liddell and Scott nothing is surprising’.

8 Ep. xviii 4; Id. i 120–1 (bis); iii 53; iv 51; v 33–4 (bis), 55; xi 38, 64; xxv 11, 14 (I believe Id. xxv to be genuinely Theocritean; see Frohn, E.: De Carmine XXV Theocriteo Quaestiones Selectae (Halle 1908).Google Scholar)