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Epic Poems


1Love is the almost constant theme of the wise Anacreon who is so familiar to us all. Compare the excellent Critias:

Teos brought thee unto Greece, thou sweet old weaver of womanish song, rouser of revels, cozener of dames, rival of the flute, lover of the lyre, the delightful, the anodyne; and never shall love of thee, Anacreon, grow old or die, so long as servinglad bears round mixed wine for cups and deals bumpers about board, so long as maiden band does holy night-long service of the dance, so long as the scale-pan that is daughter of bronze sits high upon the summit of the cottabus-pole ready for the throwing of the wine-drops.

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Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner
“Critias declares that this metre was invented by Orpheus.2Mallius Theodorus On Metres [on the dactylic hexameter]

“In Critias we find λογεύς

‘speechman’

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for ῥήτωρ ‘orator.’3

Pollux Onomasticon

1 written in hexameters

2 perh. from a drama or a prose-work; for other fragments see Diels Vorsokr. 2. 316 ff.

3 perh. from a drama or a prose-work; for other fragments see Diels Vorsokr. 2. 316 ff.

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