ALCMAN

of fourteen stanzas made the first seven alike of one
metre. and the rest alike of another: in these the
diplk is placed where the seeond part begins. to
indicate that the poem is writlen in two different
metres.

See also AP. 7. 19, Plin. ΝΠ. 11. 112, Plut.
Sulla 36, Christod. Ecphr. 395.

THE POEMS OF ALCMAN

Books I ano II

MAIDEN-SONGS
1

Seholiast on Clement of Alexandria: There was a Spartan
@alled Hippocoin whose sons, called atter him the Hippo-
eoontids, killed in anger Oeonus son of Lieymmius, a com-

nion of Heracles, because he had killed a dog of theirs.
ΟΝ revenge was to levy war upon them. and he killed
many of them and was wounded in the hand himself. The
Story is told by Aleman in his first Book.

From a First-Century Repsens:

; Polydences. A hung the slain ‘tis
we I cannot reckon Lycaeus, but both Enarsphorus
I can and the swift Sebrus, Alcimus the mighty and

) ]

1 Heracles was aided by Tyndare‘is and the Dioseuri

the suggestions of Eyser and others for tilling these gaps

Wl 1-34 by traving letter- “groups on photographs of the
Ne parts. 1. 6, which is quoted in Cram. 4.0., giving the
Deneth ; cf. Paus. 3. 15, 1 tabove), Apollod. el, 3. 10. δὲ
1. 1 no suggestion fits: 1. 7 Jur. but without authority (must
begin with a vowel) 5 sy pap. Cf. πρώξονες sr. 36

E 2