LIFE OF ALCMAN

Judge not the man by the gravestone. The tomb
ou see is small, but it holds the bones of a great man.

You shall know this for Aleman, striker pre-eminent of
the Laconian Ivre, one possessed of the nine Muses.
And twin continents dispute whether he is of Lydia
or Laconia; for the mothers of a minstrel are many.

Heracleides of Pontus Constitudions: Aleman was
the slave of Agesidas, but received his freedom
because he was a man of parts.?

Eusebius Chronicle: Olympiad 42. 2 (x.c. 611):
Flourished Aleman, according to some authorities.

Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner [on garlands]:
*Thyreatic’ :—This, according to Sosibius in his
tract On Sacrifices, is the name of a kind of garland
at Sparta, made of palm-leaves, and known nowadays

as psilinos. These garlands, he says, are worn in

memory of the victory at Thyrea by the leaders of
the choruses which dance on the festival of that
victory, which coincides with the Gymnopardiae or
Feast of Naked Youths. ‘These choruses are three in
number, the youths in front, the old men on the
right, and the men on the lef ; and they dance
Baked, singing songs by Thaletas and Aleman and
the pacans of ‘the Spar tan Dionysodotus.

Aristotle [History of Animals [on the morbus pedi-
eularis|: Mankind is liable to this disease when the
body contains too much moisture, and several victims
of it are recorded. notably the poet Aleman and
Pherecydes the Syrian.

Pausanias Description of Greece [on Sparta]: Behind
the colonnade which runs beside the Grove of Planes

lor ‘who hath in him the disposition of the nine Muses’?

® the names of both his ὁ fathers,’ however, are Gireek

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