ALCAEUS

ὁ. 5. thence. vet for a whele vear dealtest thou law in
that country: then when it was time for the
tripods of Delphi, too, to give sound, thou badest

| the swans fly back thither. Now it was summer

/ and the midst of summer when thou returnedst
from the Hyperboreans; the nightingale sang
and the swallow, the cricket sang also to tell
mankind of thy fortunes. while Castaly flowed
with springs of silver, and great Cephissus lifted
his shining waves well knuwing that a God was

come home.

2-5 To Hermes

Hephaestion Handbook of Metre: Asan epichoriambic type
of this kind of verse we may compare the so-called Sapphic
tleven-syllable, for instance: (Sa. 1). . 2: it also oceurs in

' Aleaens—and it is uncertain which of the two poets invented
it, though it is called Sapphic —, for instance ;+

Hail. thou ruler of Cyllene! thee it is my will to
sing. whom Maia bare upon the breezy heights unto
the love of the omnipotent Son of Cronus.

1 Heph. tells us this was Ode 2 of Book I: cf. Choer. on
eph., Apoll. Sywt. 03 (Gram. Gr. 2. 2. 78) who discusses
whether μέδεις is verb or partep.: perh. ct. for the rest
Philostr. Vit. Ap. 5. 15, Im. 1. 25

Ἰδέδαα δαείς. μέμαα wasts) ‘desired, loved, Michelangeli -7
Mess μαεία, μέγιστα : B μίγεισα

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