ALCAEUS

162

Athenaens Peeters of Jiinner after fr. 161. 1-2): 0. . and
in another place :

Let us drink. for the star is coming round.!

163

The Same: How then was sucha lover of drink (as Alcaeus)
to be sober and take only one or two cups at a time (as
Chamaeleon of Pontus interprets the phrase)? At any rate
the actual song in which it occurs, testifies, as Seleucus points
out, against this interpretation :

Let us drink: why wait for the lamp-lighting ?
the day has but a finger’s breadth to go. Take
down the great cups, beloved friend, from the
eupboard ; for the Son of Semele and Zeus gave
wine to make us forget our cares. Pour bumpers
in a mixture of one and two,’ and let cup chase cup
around hotfoot ; 3

thus bidding them expressly to mix the wine in a proportion
of one to two.

164

From a Second-Century Papyrus :
Over my long-suffering head, over my heary
breast, pour me the unguent. If any man be in

1 ἔφ. ἨΠ9.τ. 5 2 7. 6. one of wine to two of water
3 cf. Ath. 10. 430 a, and 11. 48] ἃ

ποικίλαις 8.1. Ὁ PF (CL VV 7 from Plat. (i. Comer,

3. 1. 3 (= 42 Bergk), 3-6 £ c.g.
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