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These are three short marginal notes from a papyrus of the Hymn to Artemis by Callimachus, the Alexandrian poet of the third century BC, on lines 48 to 52, where the goddess visits the Cyclopes at their forge on Lipara. The notes explain that the island now called Lipara was formerly called Meligunis, gloss a verb, and identify Ossa as a high mountain of Thessaly.
Brief as they are, these notes show an ancient reader of Callimachus needing help with the poet's rare names and archaic words, and they agree in part with the explanations found in other scholia on the hymn. They give a small but direct glimpse of how his poetry was annotated in the copies that circulated in Egypt.
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