ABSTRACT
When the tiro (E.K. that is) read the Sixth Song more than half a century ago Sir Frank Fletcher1 advised him in his recommended commentary that he should take unde superne / plurimus Eridani per silvam volvitur amnis as "whence the strong stream of Eridanus rolls down from above through a wood". On this basis he imagined a jolly picnic accompanied by dances and sacred songs amid fragrant laurels on a hilltop wherefrom a large river at considerable speed was rolling down through the woody hillside.2
