ALCAEUS

hidden with bright brazen greaves to ward off the
strong arrow, corslets of new linen cloth and hollow
shields are piled upon the floor, and beside them
stand swords of Chalcidian steel. and many a doublet,
many a kilt. These we cannot forget, so soon as
ever we undertake this task.
Whereas the house should rather, perhaps, have been full of
Instruments of music. but the ancients considered couraye
to be the greatest of the political virtues, ete.
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Strabo Geoyraphy [the Carians|: Their warlike proclivities
are indicated by the shield-thony, shield-device, and helmet -

plume, all of which are called Carian; compare... and
Alcaeus

and tossing a Carian plume

21

Herodian Words withow! Parallel: J excepted the Aeolic
dialect, because of πτάζω ‘to cower’; compare

They cowered like birds at the sudden sight of a
swift eagle.

22, 23, 34

Choeroboscus Va the Conons of Theodoscus: But since nouns
in -ews louse the « in the genitive . . . except Ἄρευς “Apevos
‘War,’ for this has kept the τὸ in Aeolic, as:

greater warriors than the War-God

1 of. Eust. Z/. 367. 25.

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