ALCAEUS
110

Eustathins on the Cvyseey: And from «retire comes the
rather Doric form «taire

to lil
in Aleaeus.

ἽΝ

Photius Leatcon :
to measure

in the sense of ‘to count’; Alcaeus.

1121

Etumelotiown Mucpiin: ἔννεον they swam: the verb ts
véw ‘to swim’; compare Alcaeus:

but when they swain with their hands

the imperfect is €veor ar with pleonastic a &veor.

112 4

Frow a Pepyrus of the Second Century containing Scholia
on the /iia@ τ * Nor van I pour forth my stream into the great
sea, because I am straitemed with dead bodies’: that is
‘cramped’; whence comes Alcaeus’ line:

Verily ‘twas the stream of a narrow Nanthus that
came to the sea.

113

Herodian Words withent Γερο τ For Aleaeus pronounres
olSa

I know

as three syllables.

1of BM Vet. Willer ΤῊ