ALCAEUS
49

Apollonius Preacwns: tuwe * vou, Aeolic : compare

Por the prerogative which belongs to you by
grace of the Gods, he will make the prerogative
of insatiate men.

50

Scholiast on Aristophanes JVusps [where it is parodied] :
From Alcaeus :

This man with his longing for great power will
quickly overturn his country ; she is tottering now! ;

κρέτος ‘ power’ instead of κράτος : he is parodying Alcaeus in
reference to Cleon, as being a madman.?

515

Diogenes Laertius Lire of Pitfecus: This is he whom Aleaeus
ealls Lroy- -fout Wecause he was ilat- footed and dragged or
trailed his feet after him, Splifjvet beeause of the so-called
chaps or cracks in the skin between his toes, Praacer because
he bore himself proudly without reason, ’ Prulahiing- helly ov
great-paunch because he was fat, Sup-/ ΨΝ dork because he
did not use lamps,? and Suvpt- and-Gurnished ecause he was
slovenly and dirty.

1 the Gk. is ‘near a swing-down’ (of the s-ales and the

hike) Ξ the scholiast impl ies that. Ar. parodied μαιόμενος
i eine rit With wardueros* mad on’ 3 ef. Suid. σαράπους,
Poll. 2. 1715, Plut. Gu. Cone. 8. 6. 1 * the true explanation

is more pm Be that he supped Jong and late; Hesych.
however explains it as ‘supping in ‘the dark, ‘eating in
secret’

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