Greek Lyric
fr. 48 [Plut.] Vit. Hom. 5 (v 247 Allen, O.C.T. Homer)
κατὰ δὲ Βακχυλίδην καὶ Ἀριστοτέλην τὸν φιλόσοφον (fr. 76 Rose) Ἰήτης.
fr. 49 Str. 13. 1. 70 (iii 63 Kramer)
ὁ δὲ Κάϊκος οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἴδης ῥεῖ, καθάπερ εἴρηκε Βακχυλίδης . . .
fr. 50 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 1. 1165a (p. 104 Wendel)
Ῥυνδακὸς ποταμός (Schaefer: τόπος codd.) ἐστι Φρυγίας, οὗ μνημονεύει Βακχυλίδης.
de accentu cf. schol. 1165b Ῥυνδακὸς δὲ ὡς Αἰακός; at Hdn. Il. Pros. ad 13. 759 (ii 88 Lentz) Λάμψακος, Ῥύνδακος· Ῥύνδακον ἀμφὶ βαθύσχοινον.
fr.51 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 4. 973 (p. 300 Wendel)
ὀρείχαλκος·
εἶδος χαλκοῦ. . . . μνημονεύει καὶ Στησίχορος (260) καὶ Βακχυλίδης.
cf. Didym. Chalc. fr. 34a Schmidt, Ar. Byz. fr. 413 Slater
fr. 52 Tzetz. Theog. 80–86 (Matranga, Anecd. Gr. p. 580)
ἐκ δὲ τοῦ καταρρέοντος αἵματος τῶν μορίων ἐν μὲν τῇ γῇ γεγόνασι τρεῖς Ἐρινύες πρῶτον, ἡ Τεισιφόνη, Μέγαιρα, καὶ Ἀληκτὼ σὺν ταύταις, καὶ σὺν αὐταῖς οἱ τέσσαρες ὀνομαστοὶ Τελχῖνες, Ἀκταῖος, Μεγαλήσιος, Ὄρμενός τε καὶ Λύκος, οὓς Βακχυλίδης μέν φησι Νεμέσεως Ταρτάρου, ἄλλοι τινὲς δὲ λέγουσι τῆς Γῆς τε καὶ τοῦ Πόντου.
Bacchylides
fr. 48 ‘Plutarch’, Life of Homer
According to Bacchylides and the philosopher Aristotle 1 Homer was from Ios.
fr. 49 Strabo, Geography
But the Caicus does not flow from Mt. Ida, as Bacchylides has it.
fr. 50 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes
The Rhyndacus is a river of Phrygia, mentioned by Bacchylides. 1
fr. 51 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes
orichalc, 1
a kind of copper. It is mentioned by Stesichorus (260) 2 and Bacchylides.
fr. 52 Tzetzes, Theogony
From the blood that flowed from the genitals (of Uranus) three Erinyes were born first in the earth, Teisiphone, Megaera and Alecto with them; and along with them the four famous Telchines, Actaeus, Megalesius, Ormenus and Lycus, whom Bacchylides calls the children of Nemesis and Tartarus, 1 but some others the children of Earth and Pontus (Sea).
- 1In Book 3 of On Poetry A. said Homer’s mother was born in Ios, Homer at Smyrna.
- 1Herodian, talking of the accent, quotes the words ‘by the deep-reeded Rhyndacus’; Schneidewin attributed them to B., Hecker to Callimachus (cf. fr. 459 Pfeiffer).
- 1‘Mountain-copper’.
- 2It is in Ibyc. 282(a). 42 f.
- 1Or ‘of Nemesis, daughter of Tartarus’. See p. 119 n. 1. The four names need not have been in B.