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34 To which Apollo replies, with a swift contemptuous kick (), that a river such as the Euphrates may have a vast current (), but also carries down a mass of silt and refuse; whereas Demeter's priestesses bring her, not just any water, but only (111–12) that “thin trickle, the ultimate distillation ( ), pure and undefiled, that rises from the sacred spring”. The general message, despite some teasing obscurities of detail that have occasioned endless debate, is clear enough. Kallimachos is advocating three fundamental qualities in poetry: brevity, originality, and refinement, whether of style, language, or form.
Indeed, Hellenistic scholars were as committed as any other group to the recovery and reconstitution of the past and its mythic heritage: what else was the aetiologizing obsession they display but a search for roots—perhaps exacerbated by their déraciné existence in the brave new world of Alexandria or Pergamon? Thus any intellectual or literary attempt to challenge the validity of the myths would, inevitably, arouse acute antagonism, confusion, and distress. 49 First and foremost, there were the “great deeds” of the heroic past: this ideal is reflected as a dominant leitmotif not only in Homer, but also in Herodotos, Pindar, and the fourth-century orators.
Perhaps by way of compensation, I have been fiercely obstinate in the matter of punctuation. Some of the conventions established by the Chicago Manual of Style—I am concerned in particular here with the positioning of commas and periods vis-à-vis reported speech—regularly violate every logical principle of discourse for the sake of one easy all-purpose rule-of-thumb. Readers will notice that my treatment of quoted matter ignores these arbitrary canons, a decision which gave serious concern to my old friend and current copy-editor Peter Dreyer, whose objections I firmly overruled.