ALCAEUS

Antimenidas, with the gold-bound ivory heft of the
sword [with whieh. fighting for the Babylonians who
dwell in houses of bricks four hands long,! you per-
formed a mighty deed and saved them all from
grievous troubles’ by slaying a warrior who wanted

but one palin’s breadth of five roval cubits of stature.

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From a Second-Century Papyrus :

9

. of sacred Babylon . . . Ascalon .. .?

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Harpoeration Lerivon to the Attic Craters: SevOucat .

‘Serthians” are a kind of shoe; compare Alcaeus Book viii:

and shod with Scythians

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Ltymologicum Magnan :
> Cicis

is the brother of Alcaeus ; from κῖκυς, meaning ‘streneth.

1 the usual size of a Babylemian brick fewp. Nebuchar-
nezzar is about 12 « 12 2 5) inv; these bricks often bear
his nanw, ef. Layard Viereck, p. 245: the paln’s breadth or
hatwdl was rather over 3 in. 2 prok. ref, to Antimentlas:
service with Nebuchadnerzar in Palestine 8. «ff, Said.

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