ALCARUS

[Speed thee. herald. to lovely Mytilene and say
to my dearest Melanippus :] ‘Your Aleaeus is sate
as you see.’ but mot his arms: that shield of ever-
lasting might* the Athenians have hung up in the
temple of the Grey-Pyed Goddess.’

122 To MeLantppus?

From a Second-Century Papyrus:

O why, Melanippus, do you pray you might be
with me?’ or why, when once late has sent me to
eddving Acheron, shall 1 hope to re-cross it and see
again the pure light of the sun? Nay, set not your
desire on things too great. King Sisyphus son of
Aeolus, he thought with a cratt unsurpassed to have
escaped death; but for all his cunning he crossed
the eddying Acheron in fate the second time, and
the Son of Cronus ordained that he should have
below a toil the woefullest in all the world. So I
pray you bewail not these things. If ever eries
were unavailing, our cries are unavailing now.
Assured]y some of these things were to be suffered
with an enduring heart. W hen the wind rises in the
north ὁ (no skilful pilot puts out into the wide sea. |

1 the Greek is ‘say that his Aleacus ete.’ * the epithet,
like the use of the woml ‘herald, has a humorous intention
ὁ. letver from exile ὁ Pittacus. whe banished him, was

of low birth and Thracian extraction

BE {τὶ σκῦτον et. Pern: ἐκέδασσε for ἐσκεδ.. κάπετος from
σκάπτω. awl Arch. ἐγκυτι. Lat. fis): miss οὐκυτῶν, ody Tor,

οὐκ αὐτὸν, ov κεῖται : ἀληκτύξω 17: Wiss -ρὶν, -ρὴν “Φ ΠῚ
Dine.) : for -κρέμα. of. Πΐω. 296, ὀνγώρινε T2: mes ἐς
γλαυνκωπὸὺν ἱερὸν oy ἐκρέμασαν “A. * restored ΝΙΝ
BLO PR. 14. τὸ 5 Porque. . . δινναενγταχεέροντα Avast

6p ὙΠ i
metre P Jra i.e. ἅττα

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