ALCMAN

even as horses beside the trace-horse; but here as
on shipboard the steersman must needs have a good
loud voice, and Hagesichora—she may not outsing
the Sirens, for they are Gods. but I would set her
higher than any child of human breed. Aye, she
sings like a very swan beside the yellow streams of
Xanthus, and she that cometh next to that knot of
yellow hair...

29 A-C To THe Drioscuri

Stephanus of Byzantium Lerfeou: Krysiché: A city of
Acarnania .. . its adjective is Ἐρυσιχαῖος ‘ Krysichaean,’
about whieh there is much discussion in the old writers.
For Herodian says that ᾿Ἐρυσίχαιος is marked in our texts
because it is accented proparoxytone though an ethnic
adjective : and perhaps therefore it really contains patios “a
eowherd’s stall” and the future of ἐρύω *to draw.” It will be
ambiguous then, as is clear, in Aleman near the longi 7th of
the second of his WuidensSongs, where he says:

No boor art thou nor a lubber, nor vet a tender of
sties, nay nor Thessalian-born, nor Erysichaean (or
drag- staff), nor a keeper of sheep, but a man of
highest Sardis.

‘For if it is to be joined with ‘Thessalian-born’ it is an
@thnic adjective and should be accented circumflex on the

nullimate*—thus Herodian, in his Universa? Prosody, and
—— ἐε θαι 17 it is connected with ‘a keeper of sheep,’
it is obvious that the accent should be acute on the last but
two, and that it means SCowherd* or ‘voatherd,’ an appella-
tion which is properly followed by * keeper of sheep." ?

1 the yellow streams of N. wre her own hair which is
falled golden above 0]. 53); the pap. breaks off as we begin
a final ref. to Agido with an explanation of the jest: “A.
follows TI. in the proce sssional dance * @?. ah. Ap. Th,
4. 972. Str. 10, 460 ([Ἔρυσ. glossed Καλυδώνιος)

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