Alcaeus (Lyric Poet), Fragments

LCL 142: 300-301

Greek Lyric

κοι . αντε . [ ]ρδίαν . ]α . ει[ ] . ων· 6. ] . .́ [ υγ[ . . ][ ] . . 9. ][ ] . . ν ἀμπέλοις· . ] . [ ]πέναις ὐ . . [ ]οφρόνην 12ἀν . . [ ]ελε . πάρο περ . [ . ] . . . [ . . ] . εν κ . ῦθυ κατασσάτω αὖτο . [ . . . . ]ε καππέτων 15ἐχέ[ . . ] . [ . ]α τεῖχος βασιλήϊον.

4 κοίλαν vel κοΐλαν Diehl κ]ορδίαν = καρδίαν Diehl 10 -αππέναις = -αμμένας? (cf. Voigt in indice s.v. ἄπτω) 11 ὀμ]οφρόνην Gallavotti 12 πάρο = πάρεστι (cf. ἐνό, ἐξό) 13 κηὖθυ = καὶ εὖθυ (deb. καὖθυ) Gallavotti κατασσάτω non intellegitur 14 καππέτων = καταπεσών

Et. Gen. AB p. 19 Calame = Et. Mag. 181. 44 ἀχνάσδημι· ὡς παρ᾿ Ἀλκαίῳ·

ἀχνάσδημι κάκως, οὔτε γὰρ οἱ φίλοι (fr. 349A L.–P.)

130B P. Oxy. 2165 fr. 1 col. ii 9–32 + fr. 2 col. ii 1

ἀγνο . . βιότοις . . ις ὀ τάλαις ἔγω ζώω μοῖραν ἔχων ἀγροϊωτίκαν ἰμέρρων ἀγόρας ἄκουσαι 4κα[ζο]μένας

ὦ-special character-(Ἀ)γεσιλαΐδα
καὶ [ό]ας· τὰ πάτηρ καὶ πάτερος πάτηρ κα <γ> [ε]ήρασ᾿ ἔχοντες πεδὰ τωνδέων τὼν [ἀ]λλαλοκάκων πολίαν 8ἔγ[ω . ἀ]πὺ τούτων ἀπελήλαμαι

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Alcaeus

. . . daughter . . . vines . . . to agree(?) . . . is present 1 . . . and straight (he) . . . down himself (?) . . . having fallen down . . . royal wall. 2

Etymologicum Genuinum

ἀχνάσδημι (I am distressed) as in Alcaeus.

130B

. . . Ι, 1 poor wretch, live with the lot of a rustic, longing to hear the assembly being summoned, Agesilaidas, 2 and the council: the property in possession of which my father and my father’s father have grown old among these mutually destructive citizens, from it I have been driven, an exile at the back of

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DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.alcaeus-fragments.1982