ALCMAN

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Cramer /aelifa (Orfor’): But if they begin with e the
vhange from ἡ to long α does not take place, for instance
ἔλατος ἱππήλατος ; compare Alcman :

Thin is the thread and pitiless the necessity ;!

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Σ

Tor rydehs, ‘pitiless, is derived from éAeewh, * pitiable.’
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Athenaeus Ποίους at Dinner [on the musical instriment
called magadis]: And Aleman, too, says:

to lay aside the lute

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Ltumoloyivam Magninm τ αὔσιον, ‘idle, useless’: Ibyeus uses
this form . . . but Aleman ταύσιος ; compare:

I will lie an idle ball.?

Book VI®
Apollonius Pronouns: The Aeolians use the digamma-forms
im every ease and gender... and Aleman is regularly

Aeolic in:
his own troubles

* thread &; ‘one of the Fates was ᾿Αταρπώ Sch. Od. 7, 197°
ΞΔ δ thrown down and not played with 3 the contents
@ this Book being unknown, [ have put into it all the
remaining fragments of a personal type

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