Doors and Stars in Theocritus, Idyll Xxiv

DOORS AND STARS IN THEOCRITUS, IDYLL XXIV BY HEATHER WHITE Lines 11-16 of Theocritus' Idyll XXIV present, as Gow wrote, "two formidable difficulties" The object of this paper is to over- come them both. First of all, the text: I should like to deal first with the difficulty represented by lines 15-16. Scholars have been puzzled by the fact that the poet does not tell us how the snakes pass the door in order to enter the house. Gow (in his commentary, ad line 15 ) wonders whether the phrase crTiX6fLoc xoixa 6up&ùJv might denote "some form of lattice-work", through

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