ALCAEUS

pain, then let him drink. [To all men soon or late
the Olympians] give mistortune, [and this woe of
mine [ share) with other men. And as for him that
[says there is] no [good in drinking], you may say to
him ‘Be hanged with you! [you know not good

from bad.’ ]

1651

scholiast on the 7 ἀνῇ [‘ weak walls]: The meaning of the
simple form BAnypés without the ~ is usually ‘weak? or
‘light’; compare Alcaeus Book IX:

the stormless breath of light winds

166

Athenaeus Jectors of Dinner [following fr. 39. 1-2]...
and in the spring he says:

I heard the flowery Spring beginning ;
and, a little further on :

make haste and mix a bowl of the honey-sweet.

167
The Same [following yr. 42) . . . and indeed he gives the

following general advice:

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

1 οὗ, Cram. 4.0. 1. 95. 15, Eust. 705. 62