In Various Metres

Αὔτα δὲ σὺ Καλλιόπα.

And thou thyself, Calliope.

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

Δαύοις ἀπάλας ἐτάρας

ἐν στήθεσιν macronmacronmacronmacron.

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.

Δεῦρο δηὖτε Μοῖσαι, χρύσιον λίποισαι.

Hither now, Muses, leaving golden...

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

Ἔστι μοι κάλα πάϊς, χρυσίοισιν ἀνθέμοισιν

ἐμφέρην ἔχοισα μόρφαν, Κλῆϊσ' ἀγαπάτα,

ἀντί τᾶς ἔγω οὐδὲ Λυδίαν παῖσαν οὐδ' ἔρανναν.

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.

Πόλλα μοι τὰν

Πωλυανάκτιδα παῖδα χαῖρην.

All joy to thee, daughter of Polyanax.

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

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