ALCAEUS
132

Hephaestion /feadimk of Metre fon ‘common’ syllables]:
If, however, the mute is the tinal sound of the first syllable, !
and the liquid the initial sound of the second, the first
svllable is net then, as in the previous case, ‘common’ or
doubtful, but altogether long; compare Aleaeus :

You have made me forget all my sorrows

Boox VIII?
ENCOMIA

1333 ‘To ANTIMENIDAS

Strabo Geaygraphy: Mytilene has had many famous citizens.
In ancient times there was Pittacus, one of the Seven Saves,
and the poet Alcaeus and his brother Antimenidas, of whom
Aleaeus tells that while fighting for the Babylonians he per-
formed a mighty deed and saved them from troubles by
slaying a warrior, as he says, etc.

Hephaestion Handbook of Metre [on the antispastic]: The
acatalectic trimeter which has the last + meter’ iainbic is
called the Asclepiad, for instance Alcacus :

You have come from the ends of the earth, (dear

1 in the example ἐκ; ef. Atil. Fort. 802 K. who says Hor.
took the metre of Now chur nee aurewm, Od. 2. 18, from
Ale. who often used it 2 | have placed here unclassifiable
fragments of a personal type Sef. Liban. 1. 406

possible in any Lesbian metre), 4-5 from Hesych. (= J 153)
τετραμαρήων' πλίνθων" τετρα. TA. κατὰ τέγματα- “AAKaios (So
BB, cl. τετεγάσμενοι 2S: mss τετραβαρ. πλ. καὶ ταγματα)

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