ALCAEUS

123 ‘To Menon!
Hephaestion 17 τηνε of Metre fon dactylies]: The

tatalectic Aeolic line is as follows:

I bid them call the pretty Menon, if I may have
him for an added joy at my drinking-bout.

124
The Same fon the cpronieus a majore}: The acatalectic
trimeter, which exceeds this by the first syHable and is
walled the Aleaic twelve-syllable, is like this:
Pure Sappho of the violet tresses and the gentle
smile, I would fain tell you something, did not
shame prevent me.*

1258

The Same [on the iambic}: The best-known acatalectic
types of it are dimeters like . ., and tetrameters like this of
Aleaeus :

sii

Pray, pray receive, receive your serenader.

126

Scholiast on Plato Sympustum: ‘Wine and truth,’ a saying
used of those who speak the truth when drunk; and it is the
beginning of a song of Alcaeus:

Wine, my dear boy, and truth . . .
and it occurs in Theocritus.4
1 an invitation 51, 3. from Arist. Rhet. 1. 9 (see Na.
119); ef. Cram. 4.P.1. 266. 25 * ef. Sch. Heph., Sch. Ar.
Plut. 302, Paroem. 2. 363 do OH,
399