ALCAKUS

59 To Prrracus (?)
Athenaeus Deelors of Dianer [on cups}: . . . and Aleaeus :

and you drain
menes,

goblets sitting beside Dinno-

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Scholiast on the γε [ῥεθέων climbs ’]:. 2... But the
Aeolic writers use pétos for the face, and call pretty persons

apple-faced

Hustathius onthe Odyssey: One of the later poets Doricised
the word μῆλον sapples changed ὄψις ‘face’ into εἶδος, and
putting the two together—the poet in question is the lvrist
Alcaens—called a person in jest

apple-cheeked,
because he prided himself on the apples of his cheeks, that
is his rather maiden-like blushes.
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Greck Proverb-writers :
He’s stirring up the pigs again ;

used of those who urge an unwilling man to say what he
would rather not. The proverb occurs in Alcaens,

Apollonius Pronouns: For just as with ταχεῖς we have
ταχέσιν so With ἡμεῖς * we we have ἡμέσιν ‘to us,’ and the
form ἄμμεσιν το us, used in the fourth Book of Alcaeus,

high above us

comes from ἡμέσιν.

1 of. Eust. Od. 1412. 32, Suet. Miller Met. 415 2 ‘oie
Simp. ad Avist. ds) Cuelo 35 AML. Paroem. 1. 15 {ἐπὶ τῶν
βιαίων Ἀέγεται καὶ ἐριστικῶν), Arsen. 400 > metre ‘Sapphic’

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