ALCAEUS
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(ld Elymologieun Madgnem: cele ‘to shake’; there is a
word σεεύς ‘shaker’ in Alcaeuns, for instance:

For he is the shaker of the earth ;

wand from this comes σέω or were; Compare πλέω πλείω and
πνέω mvelw .

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Athenaeus λον at Dinner fon shellfish]: . . . Aristo-
phanes the grammarian . . . declares the deyas to resemble
what is called the “//ing. But Callias of Mytilene, im lis
tract On the Lepas of ctleweus, says that there is a song in
Alcaeus beginning:

Child of the rock and the grey sea
and ending:

. and thou fillest all hearts with pride. thou
lepas of the sea.t

Instead of lepas, however, Aristophanes reads rhr/ys, * tor-
toise* or turtle, and says that Dicaearchus? reads λον
without understanding what a /epas was, namely a shell
which playing children used to put in their mouths to make
a whistle, as our guttersnipes do with what is called the
telline.

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Hephaestion Handbook ar Metre [on the vonteum a minore]:
And whole poems are written in ionics, for instance ...,
and many by Alcaeus, as:

Me a woman miserable, me a sharer in all mis-
fortune

1 metre as δ] * the same word means lyre, the earliest
lyres having been made of tortoiseshell; the poem was
apparently an address to the trumpet (see L. and δι σάλπιγξ)
which Ar, altered into an address to the Iyre 9 in his tract
tm Aleaeus Ath. 15, OBS ὁ Pet. UWeph. 125-4. who implies
that the stanzas each contained $0 feet like Hor. 3. 12, and
Gram. ap. Hermann £7. Mefr, 472, Gram. ap. Gais. Heph. 332

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