The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . short time, the rocks and fields, and come be-Vol. I.—is (225) 226 ALCIPHRON fore you die and behold the charming things which aregoing on in the city. What have you not lost ? TheHaloa, the Apaturia, the Dionysia, and the presentmost sacred Thesmophorian festival. The first daywas the ascension ; to-day is appointed for the celebra-tion of the fast.; that which follows is distinguished bythe sacrifice to Calligeneia. If you make haste, youmay come in to-morrow before the
The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . short time, the rocks and fields, and come be-Vol. I.—is (225) 226 ALCIPHRON fore you die and behold the charming things which aregoing on in the city. What have you not lost ? TheHaloa, the Apaturia, the Dionysia, and the presentmost sacred Thesmophorian festival. The first daywas the ascension ; to-day is appointed for the celebra-tion of the fast.; that which follows is distinguished bythe sacrifice to Calligeneia. If you make haste, youmay come in to-morrow before the morning star is gone,and sacrifice along with the Athenian women. Comethen ; delay not, I entreat you by the safety of myselfand my brethren. To die without any knowledge ofthe city would be abominable ; it is beastly and me, mother, since I speak for your advantage, toaddress you thus freely. To be ingenuous in conversa-tion is a virtue in every character ; but it is a matter ofparticular duty to speak the truth to those of our \\y.—Alciphrotis Epistles, Translated by T. Monro andW. 1 ALCMAN, or ALKMAN, or ALCMARON,a distinguished lyric poet of Greece. AlthoughLydia in Asia Minor is accredited with being hisbirthplace, some believe him to have been a nativeof Sparta, in which place he lived from early boy-hood. He was held by the Alexandrian critics asthe most noted of the lyric poets of Greece, and byothers as the most ancient. He flourished about themiddle of the seventh century Alcman maybe regarded in some particulars to be the fatherof lyric poetry among the Greeks, and perhapsthis is the reason he was placed by the Alexan-drian critics at the head of their lyric canon. Inhis six books, written in the vigorous broad dialectof the Dorians, are contained all sorts of melos,hymns, pseans, prosodia, parthenia, and eroticsongs. His metres did not resemble the compli-cated systems of later lyrists, being easy andvariou-s, while on the oth
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