ALCMAN

Book V
DRINKING-SONGS

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Athenaens Dertors vt inner [on the voracity of Aleman]:
And in his fifth Book he shows his gluttony thus:

And seasons made he three, summer and winter
and the third the autumn, and a fourth also, to wit
the spring, when things do flourish and grow bat
one cannot eat his fill.

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The Same: Poppy-cakes are mentioned by Aleman in his
fifth Book thus: .

Seven couches and as many tables crowned with
poppy-cakes and linseed and sesame,! and set among
the flagons cups of damaskt gold:

it is a sweetmeat made with honey and linseed.*

1 de. cakes favoured with them, or ‘ poppy-cakes both of
linseed and of sesame’; this is a drinking-bout not a feast
2 1. 6. these and poppy

Schn: mss dat: πελίχναι: ef. Ath. 11. 495 Ὁ ὁ πέβεστι

B: mss πέδεσσι, πέδαισι: χρυσ.: sc. ἐκπώματα

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