In Various Metres

82

[Greek: Auta de sy Kalliopa.]

And thou thyself, Calliope.

Quoted by Hephaestion when he is analysing a metre invented by Archilochus.

83

[Greek: Dauois apalas etaras] [Greek: en stêthesin] - v v - .

Sleep thou in the bosom of thy tender girlfriend.

From the Etymologicum Magnum. Blass thinks that the proper place for this fragment is among the Epithalamia.

84

[Greek: Deuro dêute Moisai, chrysion lipoisai.]

Hither now, Muses, leaving golden ...

Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of a verse made of two Ithyphallics.

85

[Greek: Esti moi kala pais, chrysioisin anthemoisin] [Greek: empherên echoisa morphan, Klêis' agapata,] [Greek: anti tas egô oude Lydian paisan oud' erannan.]

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]....

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

[Greek: Polla moi tan] [Greek: Pôlyanaktida paida chairên.]

All joy to thee, daughter of Polyanax.

From Maximus Tyrius. It seems to be addressed to either Gorgo or Andromeda.