ALCAEUS
1601

Aristotle Poléies: Some avsymnetes ruled for life, others
only for dehmite periods or till they had accomplished
definite wasks, as the Mytileneans chose VPittacus to deal
with the exiles under Antimenidas and the poet Alcaeus.
Now Alcaeus shows that Pittaeus was elected tyrant in one
of his Vrdaktng-senys, where he chides his fellow-countrymen
saying :

With one voice they have set up the base-born

Pittacus to be tyrant of their spiritless and ill-starred
country, shouting his praise by their thousands.?

1618

Proclus on Hesiod Works and Days [i When the artichoke
flowers and the singing cricket sits upon the tree pouring
down ἃ sweet shrill song continually from beneath his wings,
in the time when summer is wearisome, then are yoats
fattest and wine at its best, then are women most wanton.
Ilut men at their weakest; for Sirius parches head aud
knees}: Alcaeus sings in like strain:

oak your throttle in wine ;* for the star is coming
round again,’ the season is hard to bear with
the world athirst because of the heat; the cricket
sounds sweetly from the leaves of the tree-top, and
lo! the artichoke is blowing; now are women at
their sauciest, but men lean and weak because Sirius °
parches both the head and the knees.

cf. Dion. Hal. 5. 73, Plut. 2fivet. 1S 2 οἱ, Plat. Prot. 18
Sof, Adi. 10. 480), 1. 2e, Gell. 17. 11. 1, Maeroh. Swi.
7. 15. 13, Plut. Swmp. 7.1, Eust. @/. 1612. 14, Π, 890. 47,
Piut. Sexe. πα. 20, Plin. A. 22. 48 4 throttle ;
the Greek is ‘lungs’ 5 i.e. the dog-days are coming

for 24 11. read here bv ZB see Sa. 98 δ ss ἀνθεῖ δὲ καὶ σ.
=) mop. yor. 7 mes Aew. δέ τοι: ἐπεὶ καὶ : mss ἐπεὶ: yora 1),
ef. Steph. Byz. s. γόννος : mss γόνατα

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