285 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner

Ibycus in book 5 of his Songs says of the Molionids

and I¹ killed those white-horsed² youths, the children of Molione,³ like-aged, equal-headed, single-bodied, both born in a silver egg.

286 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner¹

And the man of Rhegium, Ibycus, shouts and screams,

In the spring flourish Cydonian quince-trees, watered from flowing rivers where stands the inviolate garden of the Maidens, and vine-blossoms growing under the shady vine-branches; but for me love rests at no season: like the Thracian north wind blazing with lightning rushing from the Cyprian² with parching fits of madness, dark and shameless, it powerfully shakes³ my heart from the roots.