LIFE OF ALCMAN

there are shrines of Alcimus and Fuarsphorus and,
close by, one of Dorceeus. and adjoining this again
one of Sebrus. all of whom are said to have been sons
of Hippocobn. The spring near one of them is
called Doreeian after Dorceus, and the plot near
another, Sebrian after Sebrus. On the right of this
plot is a monument to Aleman ‘ whose poems were
not made the less sweet because he used the tongue
of Sparta,’ a dialect not too euphonious. The temples
of Helen and Heracles lie the one near the tomb of
Aleman, the other close to the wall. In the latter
there is a statue of Heracles armed, this form being
due, it is said, to the fight he had with Hippocoén
and his sons.

Athenaeus Doctors αἱ Dinner: The author of the
eomedy called Zhe Helots says: ‘It is old-fashioned
to sing Stesichorus, or Alcman, or Simonides. We
can listen to Gnesippus . . .”

Suidas Lexcon: Philochorus ... wrote ...a
treatise on Aleman.

Athenaeus Doctors αἱ Dinner: Similarly Sosibius
in the 3rd Book of his Treatise on Aleman.

Stephanus of Byzantium Lexicon: ... as Alexander
Cornelius says in his tract On the Topical Allusions of
Aleman.

Hephaestion On Graphical Signs: The outward-
looking diplé (>) is frequent in the werks of the
comic and tragic writers, but unusual in those of the
lyrists. It oceurs in Aleman, who in writing a poem

lapparently the inser. ran ᾿Αλκμᾶνος τόδε σᾶμα τῷ (or
uriua τόδ᾽ ᾿Αλκμαίωνος @) ἄπωματα ποιήσαντι οὐδὲν ἐς ἀδοσύταν
Ἀυμάνατο γλῶσσα Λακώνων, but it would hardly be conteim-

porary with A. (cf. ¢. σ. A.P. 7. 3)
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