In Various Metres
82 · Voigt 124¶And thou thyself, Calliope.
Αὔτα δὲ σὺ Καλλιόπα.
Quoted by Hephaestion when he is analysing a metre invented by Archilochus.
83 · Voigt 126¶Sleep thou in the bosom of thy tender girlfriend.
Δαύοις ἀπάλας ἐτάρας
ἐν στήθεσιν –⏑⏑–.
From the Etymologicum Magnum. Blass thinks that the proper place for this fragment is among the Epithalamia.
84 · Voigt 127¶Hither now, Muses, leaving golden ...
Δεῦρο δηὖτε Μοῖσαι, χρύσιον λίποισαι.
Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of a verse made of two Ithyphallics.
85 · Voigt 132¶I have a fair daughter with a form like a golden flower, Cleïs the beloved, above whom I [prize] nor all Lydia nor lovely [Lesbos]....
Ἔστι μοι κάλα πάϊς, χρυσίοισιν ἀνθέμοισιν
ἐμφέρην ἔχοισα μόρφαν, Κλῆϊς’ ἀγαπάτα,
ἀντί τᾶς ἔγω οὐδὲ Λυδίαν παῖσαν οὐδ’ ἔρανναν.
I have a child, a lovely one,
In beauty like the golden sun,
Or like sweet flowers of earliest bloom;
And Claïs is her name, for whom
I Lydia’s treasures, were they mine,
Would glad resign.
— J. H. Merivale.
A lovely little girl is ours,
Kleïs the beloved,
Kleïs is her name,
Whose beauty is as the golden flowers.
— Frederick Tennyson.
Quoted and elaborately scanned by Hephaestion, although Bergk regards the lines as merely trochaic.
86 · Voigt 155¶All joy to thee, daughter of Polyanax.
Πόλλα μοι τὰν
Πωλυανάκτιδα παῖδα χαῖρην.
From Maximus Tyrius. It seems to be addressed to either Gorgo or Andromeda.
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