ALCAEUS

~o aud besouvht the Gol te come back themes. Yet
Apollo dealt: law mptong those of that country for a whole
year. Then, when he thought it was time that the tripods
OF Delphi, tom, should give sound, he bade the swans tly beck
again trem the Hyperboreans. Now i ‘= suminer, and the
very inidst of Summer, when Aleaeus {1 Δ ΡΟΊ back trom
that land. and therefore with the summer brightly shining
anil Apollo present, the lor, too, puts on ἃ summer wantouness
eoncerning the (τινὶ, Nig chtingales sing to him as birds
might well sing in Aleacus, «wallows also sing aml crickets,
net announcing their own tertunes in the world but telling
in all their tunes of the Grd. Castaly, in poetic style, flows
with springs of silver. and vreat Cephissas lifts himself with
his waves all shining. in imitation of the Enipeus of Homer.
For Alvweus, like Homer, perforce makes the water able to
know that a God is present.

Hephaestion 7Tuniiow: of Metre: The epionie trimeter
a majore is acatalectic, the so- caller Alcaic eleven-syllable
. for instance :

O King Apollo, son of great Zeus.)
e.g, whom thy father did furnish forth at thy birth
with golden headband and lyre of shell, and
giving thee moreover a swan-drawn chariot to
drive, would have thee go to Delphi and the
water which is Cephissus’ gift to Castaly.? there
to deliver justice and right in oracles unto Greece ;
nevertheless. once mounted. thou badest thy
swans fly to the land of the Hyperborcans: and
' although when the Delphians heard of it they
set a paean unto flutes and dances of youths
| around the triped and besought thee to come

Tet. Seh. Heph. St: end Τρ, 6: Heph. tells us this is Ode 1
of Book 1 2 αἵ. Pausanias ‘1 have heard . . . that the
water 7s a gift vo Castalia from the Cephissus, and Aleaeus
says this too in his prelude to Apollo’

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