ALCAEUS

two thousand staters in the hope we might reach
the sacred city this fellow like a cunning-hearted
fox made fair promises [to his own fellow-citizens]
and then reckoned he would eseape scottree [if le
failed to perform them].

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From a Second-Century Papyrus:
to say to him: ‘He who shared evil revels
with an unseemly crew. as a mere stone of the base,
now, by making merry with good-fellows of the
idlest and vainest. has become the headstone over
them all.) And in the pride of his marriage with a
daughter of Atreus* let him do despite τὸ his
eountrymen as he did with Mvyrsilus, till Ares choose
to turn our luck and we forget this our anger and
have rest from the heart-devouring pain and _ inter-
necine battle which one of the Olympians hath roused
in us to bring destruction on the people and to give

delightful glory unto Pittacus.

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From the Same:
You were friends enough with me once to be
invited to sup on kid and pork: this is the way of
the world.4

money he refused it’ 2 the scholiast tells us that we Us
married a sister of Dracon a desvendant of Atrenus, f°. of
the Atreid founders of Lesbos 3 an accusation of ingr whi.
‘tude 3. the scholiast says this hecame a proverb

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