ALCMAN

42

Bekker Jneiite: The diminutive or pet-name is a usime
@Xpressive of sumalluess and suitable to girls. [τ is used for
this reason, fer instanee, by Aleman: . νον τ for the speakers
are girls.!

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Hephaestion Hundion’ of Metre [on the dactylic}: Aleman
has whole stanzas of this metre :
Come, Muse Calliope. daughter of Zeus, begin thy
lovely lines, and make a hymn to our liking anda
dance that shall please?

44
Scholiast on the Qdyssey: Pxyria, a little islet with

anelorage for twenty ships . . . compare Aleman:

to the sacred rock, to Psyra

45

Aristides On the Evtrmporised Addition: In another place
Aleman becomes so God-inspired that you may say he is not
only ἔνθεος in the ordinary sense of the word but speaks the
Gol’s actual words like a God from the machine, deus or
machina :

Tell me this, ye mortal breeds,

the quovation is lost: cf. Cram. 1.4. 4. 273. 12 ° ‘mt
this book [ have placed all other fragments of choral or
otherwise general type 3 of. Max. Plan. 4. 510 Walz,

Ars. 360. Peroom. 2. 540, Heph. 44 and Sch.
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