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Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.

Cleon: Poems

None.

Elegiac Poems

1‘Well-housed’ … from βαυρία which in Messapian means ‘house’; compare Cleon the elegiac writer:

This done, they assembled themselves together from their houses, the sturdy young of the Gorgon-slayer.2

Etymologicum Magnum ευ)βύριον


1 cf. Curt. 8. 5. 8 for a long story connecting him with Alexander

2 perh. means the Persians with a pun on Perseus

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