ALCAEUS

and make merry here both with you and with
Bacehus.! And yet why take we our love off our

country, even though fools have thrown all she hath

into contusion, mingling . . .*

74 [To Myrtitene]
From a Second-Century Papyrus :

Nor vet did he harm thee in that he itehed,
as every child of unfamed parents itches, to go in
and out of garish houses; for being still at home
among the obscure. he was bearable as yet. But
when he did the deeds of wicked men in wanton
presumption and drunken with power, there was no
bearing such things as those. And now after many
a slip we stand upright in our ancient estate; [for
though these sweets] are mingled with that [sour],
still God, 1 ween, [decrees us something bad in

everything that is good.?}

75
From the Same:
ον And as for me, I remember it not: for I was
still a little child sitting on his nurse’s knee; but I
know from my father the honour yon man_ had

received of yore from the son of Penthilus;® and

let, ALM, 216. 48, Ov, Pan. W360. 3 Ξ Ye, our political
position, though net ideal, is now bearable 3 Dracon,
whose sister Pittacus married

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