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the α and the s in Alcaeus:

nor had Poseidan vet roughened the salt sea,

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From a First-Centary Papyrus : ἔστ 53

What purpose or intent is in thee, my Country,
that thou hast been so long time distraught? Be of
good cheer; for the son of Cronus himself! did tell
thee that thou hadst no need to fear warfare how-
soever it should seize thee, nor should neighbour
foeman, nay ver oarsman trom over the far-bounded
sea, maintain for long the woeful contict of the
far-Aung spear, unless thou shouldst of thyself send
afar all the best of thy people. to sunder them from
thee.” For ‘tis men that are a city’s tower in war.
But alas! thou no lenger doest the Father's will,
and so a switt fate hath overtaken thee, and us that
had been sent to help thee. for so he had
willed it—hath made to miscarry ἢ and taken away

from thee again. And let whose will. bring thee
assuagement of thy woes. He that hath made him

pottage, he also must eat ἐξ; © these things are no
— longer a concern of ours. And whatsoever Fate it

1 an oracle? 9 scholia ref. to the ‘first banishment,’
of Alewens, Sappho. Pieaidas. Antimenidas, and others, to
Prrvli@ in Leshos tor pletting against Myrsilas mrt.

either toda ativenept ar the extles to return ba force of aris
ar rejection by Δ]. of an offer of the exiles to return and
combine with him against an eatermal foe © fee punt lave
made your bed and you must lie on it

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