ALCAEUS
37, 38, 39

Heracleitus Huwrrve Allegertes: We shall tind the Ivrie
poet of Mytilene using allegory in a considerable number
of passages. He likens the disturbances caused law the
tyrants very literally to stormy weather at sea:

I eannot tell the lie of the wind:! one wave rolls
from this quarter, another from that. and we are
carried in the midst with the black ship. labouring
inan exceeding great storm. The water is up to
the mast-hole. the sail lets daylight through with
the great rents that are in it, and the hi alyards © * ane
working loose.®
Whe hearing this would not conclude immediavely from
the moving sea-imazery that the fear conveyed by the words
is fear of the sea on the part of men aboard ship?’ Yet it is
not so, for the poet means Mvrsilus and a monarchieal con-

spiracy hatehing azainst the ‘My tileneans. And he similarly
hints at Myrsilus’ intrigues in another place:

Lo now! the wave that is to windward of us
eomes this way, and will give us sore labour to
bale it out when it breaks over us.

In faer the tslander almost overdoes the sea-going in hi-

allegories, hkening mest of the prevailing tyrant-troubles to
storms on the orean.

Hesychius Glossary :
a four-times coiléd surge of brine

that is, the third or greatest wave.*

‘ or ‘facetious strife of the winds’: prob. the words have

a double intention Ξ the ropes that keep the yard in
position 9 ὦ Βίας. 4.4. ἃ. MH, Hor. Wh). Μὲ: proh.
not from the ποθ pow as 37 sas it was usually called

ὁ doubttully aseribed to A. by 2 oon 152 (144 Beko: iss
ὥλμαν: cf. Sch. Pind, 7,1. 52 ν᾽

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