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This article proposes a new acrostic (SAPI) and telestic (SOIS) at Laus Pisonis 227–30. Their position opposite one another is an indication that they are to be read as a single sentence and an admonition to both dedicatee and reader that poet and patron need each other to gain eternal fame. The telestic allows us to reconstruct the poet's usus scribendi of the reflexive possessive pronoun suus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This note proposes an emendation to Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 28. The transmitted and universally accepted text poses three issues: (1) μέχρις ἵνα is pleonastic, (2) the optative ψαύσειε does not suit the sequence of tenses, and (3) the context seems to demand that Artemis does not touch her father's beard. I suggest repunctuation of the preceding lines and reading μέχρι τέλος παύσειε. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]