This volume of sixteen essays includes âThe Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiodâs Text,â by Friedrich Solmsen; âNotes on Plautusâ Bacchides,â by Otto Skutsch; âGadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146â148),â by Richard F. Thomas; and âHomoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry,â by Lennart HÃ¥kanson.