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Archilochus · J. M. Edmonds (Loeb Classical Library, 1931)
[Image: ]A papyrus scrap, first published in 1908, from an ancient manuscript of Archilochus “FAR THOUGH I be, I have seen the chiding Archilochus in manifold want, with nought to fatten him but heavy-worded hatreds.” Pindar Pythians, P. 2. 99 “... Gyges, who is mentioned in an iambic trimeter by his contemporary Archilochus of Paros (fr. 25).1“ Herodotus Histories: “From the [coming into fame of Archil]o[chus the iambic poet] 418 years, in the archonship of Lysiades at Athens.2“ Parian Chronicle: “But Aristarchus in his Notes on Archilochus makes Homer contemporary with the colonisation of Ionia.” Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies “[on the frescoes of Polygnotus in the Delphian Colonnade] It is not quite clear with what the passengers (in Charon’s boat) are concerned.3 Tellis4 appears to be about eighteen years of age, Cleoboea still a girl, and is holding in her lap a casket of the …
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