Dos propuestas de crítica textual sobre el Idilio II de Teócrito

Abstract

This paper proposes to consider the verse 61, which is wrongly placed and usually deemed spurious, as a transposition of a third refrain which would appear between the verses 138-9, 144-5, 148-9, 153-4, 158-9 Gow. The article analyses the structure of the poem, the sense of the verse, its grammatical fitness, its transmission. As far as regards verse 164, I propose to read πόθον (the variant admitted by Gow, Legrand and others, in agreement with the papyrus 3 KP, against the lections πόθον of the other testimonies and πάθος of the Vat. gr. 38) as ποτόν (cf. v. 58), which seems to be more adequate to the Simaitha's position; according to that, there would be no final change of attitude in the character.