ALCAEUS

by leaping to the high-top of benched barks, there
to sit far-seen upon the forestays, and so lighting

the midnight path of the black ship?

15 To Actuies

Kustathius on Dionyvsins the Geographer : Others say that
this is another Achilles, king of the district, among the
Seythians, who had fallen in iove with Iphigeneia and. re-
mained there after following her when she was sent thither.
The commentators who hold this view call Alceaeus to witness
where he says:

O King Aehilles. who rulest the land of
Scythia

16 To THe Nympus

Hephaestion Jfenadbook of Metre fon the antispastic]: The
avatalectic tetrameter is called the Sapphie sixteen-svlable,
and the whole of Sappho’s third Book is written in it. as
well as many poems of Alcaeus, such as:

OQ Nymphs, whe they say are sprung from the
Aegis-Bearer . . .

17 [Τὸ rae Sum] 5
From a Second-Century Papyrus:
All-nurturing Sun, who hast come by river-banks
or by the purple sea where the gushing wave beats

on the surty shore, while many maids stand in a

Li¢§o A. τος five 5. Tf |. 1 is riehtly restored this
poem may be connected with the eclipse of May 28, 585 pec.
but one would perh. expect a ref. to it earlier than the
τα stanza

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