ALCAEUS

is that serndeth this trouble, ‘tis sent with good reason,
These woes began for thee with Tenages. son of
Aeolus, that was slain of yore by the sword of his
brother Macar,} a sword that left sorrow behind it,
And now I make this prayer concerning thee: that
I may no longer see the daylight, if the son of
Cleanax* or yonder Splitfoot® or the son of Archeanax
be suffered yet to live by one whom his dear swect
native-land, and factious strife as old as itself,
together have done away.

Athenaeus Joetors uf Dinners For at every time and on
every occasion the poet Alcaeus is found drinking; in the

winter, in these lines: (157): . ..3 in his misfortune, in
these: (158): . . . 3 and in his rejoicing, in these :

“Tis time for wine and time for women, now that
Myrsilus is dead.

43, 44

-\pollonius Pronowas (on ἄμμιν Sto us, ete.): For the
forms used by the Aeolic writers often discard the w for the
sake of euphony in sentence-constraction, commpare (Na. 42),
and this: .

and if Zeus will accomplish what is our intent ;
Aleaeus. And the 2 remains in:

. . . the immortal Gods have given us the

victory ;

from Alcaeus’ third Book, and in many more places.

lef. Sch. 77, 24. S44: founder of the Greek colony of
Lesbos 2 Myrsilus 3 Pittacus

Hesych. πονεῖν' ἐνεργεῖν Δ΄ τ iss πονεῖν, a very old reading,

cf. Soph. Fr. 655 N 5 # (lost by haplogr.)
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