ALCAEUS
141

Seholiast on Aristophanes Jivrvs [What birds are these
that have nothing at all, bivals motley-winged, O motley
swallow of widespread wing ’!!: Some commentators gay
this is from Alcaeus’ lines :

What birds are these which have come trom the
ends of the earth and the ocean, wildgeese of motley
neck and widespread wing?

142
Herodian Tenis withwut ἐνερ: Alcavus sometimes aetu-
ally uses the form κείνοθεν ‘thence’; compare:
For even if he comes from another place, he can
always say that he is come from that.*

148

Svholiast on Siva: χέραδος * stone- heap: according to
Apollodorus this means a quantity of stones from the sea or
trom a river, which we call pebbles τ others call them χεράδια
ot ‘hand-stones’ because one of them just fills the hand.
The word occurs in Alcaeus:

If you move from a stone-heap a block of stone
that is not firm set, then ‘tis like vou will get a
sore head. ;

144 3
Scholiast ou Odyssey (pretext, prevarivation ὁ}: compare
Alcaeus:
. nor prevaricating his intent at all;

that is, exeusing or clowuking, turning his intention else-
whither.

T walled @ σκήλτον or drinking-seng in lL M416. but this may
not be technieally weeurate for the original 7 emendation
anil translation uncertain 5. OF, πὸ. Ad. Ta, 2. 2A,
5954, 55, Matr. fn. 389

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