ALCAEUS

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Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes [* The Phaeaciaus are
sprang from the blood of Heaven’|]: 2... and moreover

Aleaeus agrees with Acusilaits in saying that the Phaeacians
take their descent from the drops that fell from Uranus or
Heaven.?

eg... The Phaeacians, sprung from drops
| celestial
97

Scholiast on Hesiod [ And for a third bore she Hydra ‘]:
Alcaeus calls the

Hydra nine-headed

Simonicdes ‘ fifty-headed.’

98

Photius Lexicon: &ywvos
conflict :

by ‘adaptation’ for ἀγών ; it is ‘adapted’ from the genitive:
it is often used thus by the lyric poet Alcaeus.
99

Hesychius Glossary: ἁλιβάπτοις, purple. | ἀλίβαπτον

sea-dipt
a purple bird; Alcaeus and Aleman.

100?

Etymologiecum Magni + ἀμάνδαλον > used in the sense of
unseen
by Alcaeus. From ἀμαλδύνω ‘to destroy’; ἀμαλδῦνον or
ἀμάλδανον ‘that which is unseen or disappearing: and by
transposition ἀμάνδαλον.
1 ite, when he was mutilated 2 ef. Cram, A.2?. 4. 8. 16

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