ALCMAN

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Athenaeus Jimters of Pinner [on voracitv]: And in his
third Book the poet Aleman records that he was a elutton.
thus:

And then Vl} give you a fine great caldron wherein
you may gather a plentiful dinner. But unfired is it
yet, though soon to be full of that good pottage
the all-dev ouring Aleman loves piping het when the
days are past their shortest, He'll none of your fine
confections, not he : for, like the people. he seeketh
unto the common fare.!

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The same [on the sevphus]: Asclepiades of Myrlea, in his
treatise on the Cup or Nestur, says that the seyphus or ‘can.’
and the cissybium or ‘mazer” were never used by town-
dwellers and people of means, but only by swineherds and
shepherds and country-folk. . . . And Aleman says:

Time and again ‘mid the mountain-tops, when the
Gods take their pleasure in the torch-lit festival, you
have carried a great can of the sort that shepherds
carry, but all of gold and filled by your fair hand
with the milk of a lioness, and thereof have made a
great cheese, whole and unbroken and_ shining
white.?

εν οι when you. the chorus-leader, have won the singing-

femtest for Aleman, I. the judge A. makes him say) will
give you—and him—the prize 2 ref. toa Maenad ata
midnight festival of Dionysus: cf, a Grammarian quoted

Philologus 10. 350