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Avistides The Pour Great Athenions): But I will admit this
in Plato's favour; granted the ‘brackish [or bitter] neigh-
bonr,’ as he calls it (Laws 475 a).

Scholiast on the passage: Brackish neighbour: from
Aleman the lyrist, meaning ‘it is a bad thing to have
the sea for a neighbour.’. . . So the orator means ‘let us
admit that Athens was situate near the sea,’

Arsenius Violet-Bed :

Look thou from afar upon a brackish neighbour.

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Aristides On the Extemporised Addition: In another passage,
by way of displaying the greatness of his own fame, Aleman
makes so preposterous an enumeration of peoples, that the
hapless scholar to this day is trying to tind out where in the
world they can be, and it would pay him better, I think, to
retrace his steps for many miles than to spend his time over
the Sciapods or Shadow-feet.

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Strabo Geography: One can hardly charge Hesiod with
ignorance for speaking of the Demi-dogs . . . nor yet Aleman

for mentioning the Steganopods or Shelter-feet.~

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Diodorus of Sicily fistorical Library: For most of the
mythologists, and these the most approved, say that the
Muses are the daughters of Zeus and Memory, but a few
of the poets, and among these Aleman, represent them as
daughters of Heaven and Earth.®

1 Miltiades, Themistocles, Pericles, Cimon 5 ef. Serab.
7. 299, Cram. A.O. 3. 370.8 3 see however 43 and 50:

ef. Sch. Pind. WV. 3. 16
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