ALCMAN

87

Strabo Geography lon Crete}: phorus says that the public
mess is still called ἀνδρεῖα or ‘the men’s mess’ in Crete, but
that at Sparta that name is obsolete, though it oecurs in
Aleman as follows :

At feasts and in the companies of the men’s mess
‘tis well beside them that sit at meat to strike up
and sing the Paean.!

88

Athenaeus Doctors af Dinner [on nectar]: I know that
Alexandrides says that nectar is not the Gods’ drink but
their food; . . . and Alcman says:

to do nothing but eat of the nectar.*

89

Scholiast on Pindar [woe . . . which his father hung over
him, that mighty stone]: Alcaeus and Aleman say that a
stone hung over Tantalus; Aleaeus thus (fr. 57), and Aleman
thus :

He sat, a wicked man, among pleasant things.
upon a seat rock-o’erhung, thinking he saw and
seeing ποῦ."

90

Cramer /nedita (Oxford) [on ὕπαιθα] : This word is also used
without the syllable θα in Aleman, and it means πρότερον
‘formerly’:

"Twas long ago that Hippolochus did fall, but he
hath received a fame that even now hath not deserted
him ;
instead of πρότερον ; it is accented on the first syllable.

1 of. Eust. 7/. 305. 34, Men. Rh. Gr. Walz 9. 135 2 ef.

Hust. 1633. 1 3 the feast was a phantom: cf. Hust. Οὐ,

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