the division between books 2 and 3 presents a special problem for the reconstruction of the "catalogue". a scholion to theocritus, "idyll" 3.40 appears to attribute the story of atalanta to "hesiod in book 3", a method of citation that almost certainly refers to the present poem. one papyrus concludes with what appears to be the beginning of the first line of atalanta's ehoie followed by a forked paragraphos and blank space, suggesting that it is a "reclamans"; another papyrus ("pictured") clearly transmits the ends of the first few lines of her section preceded by blank space, giving the possibility that it was the beginning of a book. these two fragments would combine to give: