ALCAEUS

us in his treatise Vw Prewerts; Avistodenius is wet manied by
Pindar, as thouch it were obvieus who the author is; he
merely indicates that the plare of his birth was Arun.
Aleaeus on the other hand gives both name and birthplace,
making the latter Sparta, not Argos:

. . Forevenas once ona day ‘tis told Aristodenins
said at Sparta —and ‘twas no bad thing—. the money
is the man, and no poor man is either good or
honourable.!

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From ἃ Papyrus of the First Century n.c. found at
Herculaneum, Demetrius on Poems :

.. And to drink seemed to him ἃ pleasant
thing: but one that hath so much wine as that
about his wits. such an one lives no life at all; for he
hangs his head, chiding oft his own heart and re-
penting him of what he hath done. And so it ceased
to please him when he came to his ripest.

And we find the same sort of sentiment in Ibyvcus.

83?

Hephaestion Han lhonk of Mefre fon the antispastie]: Aleaeus
also used an acatalectic pentameter :

Sprung from the royal son of Cronus, Ajax second
in valour to Achilles

lof. Diog. Laert. 1.31, Suid. χρήματα. Arsen. 476, Perec.
Ὡ, 199 5. ef. Choer. Gram. Gr. 4. 123. 25

δ -weras 7 ως μετοιόμενύς te: Hesych. wedadereuercs
records old variant