ALCMAN

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Athenaews Moefors αὐ Dianer: VPartridges are called by some
writers κακκάβαι. notably by Aleman, who says:

Aye, and Aleman did put together the tongued
utterance of the caceahis, to make his twine of words
and music,

clearly indicating that he learnt to sing from the partridges.!

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Antigonus of Carystus Marrrds: The cock haleyons are
called ceryls. and when they grow old and weak and unable
to tly, their mates carry them upon their wings; and with
this Is connected the passage in Alcman where he says that
awe has made him weak and unable to whirl round with the
choirs and with the dancing of the maidens :

O maidens of honey voice so loud and clear, my
limbs can carry me no more. Would O would God
{ were but a ceryl. such as flies fearless of heart with
the halcyons over the bloom of the wave, the Spring’s
own bird that is purple as the sea! 3

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Aristides On Rhetoric: And what saith the praiser and
counsellor of the maidens, the poet of Sparta?

Be the man’s name Say-much, the woman's Glad-
of-all,

by which he means ‘let the man speak and the woman be
content with whatsoever she shall hear.’

1 the poet is jestingly praising his choir at his own
expense * &. Bek. An. 2. 522, SHS, 946, Cram. 1. 1.
265, 1, AM. 186. 43, Sch. Ar. ute. 250, 299, Suid. κηρύλος,
Phot. s. tpris, Ath. 9. 347d, Zon. 121 ((roettl.)