He found no fault with me until yesterday, and I none with him. But today the mother of Philista, our blind flute-girl, and of Melixo came to me, at the hour when the horses were racing up the sky with rosy-armed Dawn from Ocean. Among much else she told me that Delphis is in love. Whether it is a woman or a man he wants now, she said she did not know for sure, only this: he kept pouring unmixed wine in his love's honor, and in the end he rushed off, saying he would hang garlands on that house.

Then the news. Early this morning, as the horses of Dawn climbed the sky, the mother of Philista and Melixo came to visit; Cholmeley explains that one woman is meant, the mother of both girls. Delphis is in love. She does not know whether with a woman or a man, but at a party he kept drinking his wine unmixed to his love, then hurried off saying he would hang garlands on that house. Lovers hung garlands on the beloved's door; Cholmeley cites Lucretius, book 4, on the shut-out lover covering the doorstep with flowers. One word here is Cholmeley's own. The manuscripts call Philista "my" or "our" flute-girl; he printed ἀλαᾶς, "blind," as nearer to what they show (his note on line 146). This edition follows his text and says so.