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Pausanias Drseripfion of Ge fon Meathous]: Aleman ΠῚ
a song to the Dioseuri tells we how they seized \phidnae and
took prisoner the mother of Theseus, but says that Theseus
himself was not there.?

Hesychius Glossary :
City of the Athenians:
that is, Aphidnae.

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Pausanias Leseripfion of Greece [on Pephnus}]: Twenty fur-
longs from Thalamae there is a place on the sea called
Pephnus, off which there stands a pile of rock of some con-
siderable size, known by the same name. ‘This according to
the people of Thalamae was the birthplace of the Dioscuri,
and their testimony, [ know, agrees with that of a song of
Aleman’s: but they say that though horn they were not
bred there, and that it was Hermes who carried them to
Pellana.

8-15 To Lycaran Zeus

Maximus Planudes On JHermogenes: The metrical systems
of lyric poetry consist of strophe, antistrophe and epode.
Of these the strophe comes first, and consists of two or more
similar or dissimilar lines, as in this of Aleman (43), where it is
composed of three dactylic nes of the same metre, and in
this, where it is made up of unlike lines :

Hither, Muse, sweet clear Muse of. the many
tunes and everlasting song, and begin a new lay for
maids to sing.®

lef. Sch. 72.3. 242 5. ef. BWA. 589. 47, Apoll. Synt. 1. 4.
Frotian 99. 2 ΓΑλκμὰν ἐν df μελῶν), Prise, Metr. Ter. 2. 428

Keil (Aleman in primo), Him. Or. 5. 3
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