Lyra Graeca, Volume II: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon and Simonides [2]

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY E.

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PH.D., LL.u.

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LYRA GRAECA II

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LYRA GRAECA BEING THE REMAINS OF ALL THE GREEK LYRIC POETS FROM EUMELUS TO TIMOTHEUS EXCEPTING PINDAR NEWLY EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY J.

M.

EDMONDS

LATE FELLOW OP JESUS COLLEGE CAMBUIDGE

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THREE VOLUMES volume

ii

including Stesichorus Ibycus Anacreon and Simonides

LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAMS SONS :

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Printed in Great Briiain

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PREFACE In introducing my second volume I liave to tliank the Egyptian Exploration Society for their kind permission to include the fragment of the Saj/ings qf Simonides from the Ilibch Papi/ri and the new fragment of Ibycus from the XV^th Oxyrhynchus vohnne. While I was making the Index I found that I had omitted the second reference to Simonidcs in the Parian Chronicle, that recording his death at the age of ninety in the year 468 b.c, and the following characteristic anecdote of Timocreon in the Ilepc KaKtwv of Philodemus, first rightly emended by Wilamowitz in his Sappho und Simonides ' When that conceited fellow Timocreon of Rhodes was asked, as he came before the judge of tlie competi" You shall tion^ where he hailed from, he repHed :

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hear presently from tlie herald " a remark which was passed on. However, his Castor-song proved so Httle to the liking of his audience tliat the judge stretched out liis wand and nearly stoj)ped him before he had finished. and This meant defeat when, as he withdrew, his questioner repeated " Where do you hail from ? " he rephed " From ;

Seriphus." I should make the following of whicli, by the way, is necessi tated by any lapse of Mr. Heinemann's admirable staff: at p. 16 near the bottom read upLOfxrjdelcrav; Alcman I. 14 ye/jatTaTo? p. 45 1. 5 632-629 b.c. 35 fj.Y}(TaiJ.€voi, 44 fjnofxecrdai, 45 tt/xev Alcaeus 1. 1.

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