ALCAEUS

now he that overturned the despotism of the traitor
{Melanchros, is himself. ere we knew it], become

despot [of our city].

76 ‘To tHe MyriILeNneans
From a Second-Century Papyrus:

But he goes striding wide over your heads.
and you hold your tongues like initiates when they
behold the dead they have called up. Nay rather,
my fellow-countrymen, up and quench the log while
it but smoulders among you, lest the light thereof

come to a brighter flame.!

77
From the Same:
You were not altogether a knave ..., .. .,? nor

yet a fool, but kept the oath you swore to us by the
altar of the Son of Leto, that none of the Children of
Treason should know truly who it was to whem in
the beginning .

1 pestored from Scholia 2 the gap prob. contained an
adv. of time (6. g. ποτά or πέρυσιν), and a voc.

Ἀαμπρότερον τὸ φῶς γένηται: ‘oR is 5 αμμοισι

== ἀπομύσας * mock-patronymic ” a substitution for
᾿Ατρεΐδαν.. founders of Lesbes, to whom P.’s wife belonged
8 adv. cf. λάθρα

371

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