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iKT]^6\(!> l(T)(eaiprj 5* 

 IIoTjetSaFcor't Fiivukti ^^ 



From the very nature of the metre early elegiac inscriptions tend to 

 be more diffuse than hexameters, but in them, too, the addition to the 

 original bare formula may be only the name of the father or some word 

 describing the gift (e. g. ayaXfia) or some phrase which had come to be a 

 familiar part of the pentameter, e. g. fv$a^lel>os SeKar?;i/ (;-5'2, 36), iraibl 

 xapi^ofxem) (15), iraiKi Aios fxeyaXov (31, 32, 36). Epp. 26 and 32 are two 

 of the many concise distichs in which every word except the epithet 

 gives the reader some definite information. 



26. IlaXXjaSt fx iypefia)(a Aiofvcrto[? rdjS nynKpa 

 arrjae KoXoiov nais [€v^a\ixfuos dtKaTrju.^^ 



In epigrams such as this the art appears in the adoption of a metrical 

 form not, barring the epithet, in the choice of words or the method of 

 expressing the sentiment. Thus 8 is a poem rough and without charm, 

 written with more effort than success, 



8. 2^|U.]a t68 (^f)y(y)vs oSoii Qeoarjuov [arrjaa- . . . 

 dy^dpos ffiov (y)f (pi\ov Kayadoii ducplortpov. 



On the other hand 5, though scarcely more ornate, shows a style some- 

 what easier and freer. 



5. T^jSe (f)i[\T]v aXo)(OP 6 df7va] KartdrjKe Bavovaav 

 Afa/iTrtjTcu al8oiT]v, yrjs dno TvaTpooiqs. 



Often we find the prayer, which was indeed always in the mind of a 

 Greek, that the divinity may be graciously pleased to return an equiva- 

 lent for the gift offered. ^^ Now it is good report that is desired — 



42. 56j Se P Iv di/dpooTTOis 86^av fXft" dyad(ci)u,^' 



now gain — 



38. TTOTvia TOiv dyaBcov rat crv 86s dcpdoviav, 



now we find expressed that craving to be remembered among men,58 

 to which, indeed, the very existence of the stones bears witness. 

 Of a different sort are epp. 1, 2, and 11. 



2. "Avdpuinf oi ((T^^T(l)(([i]s Ka6^ 68ov (fypacrw «X(X)a jjLfvoivoiv 

 crTrjOi Ktil o'lKTipov aijpa Opacroivoi I86iv. 



11. 2TJij.a 'PpaaiKXfUis. Kovprj KfKSrja-opai alfi 



dvTi ■yd^ov irapa ^fcoi' tovto Xn^^oitr ovop.a. 



" IGA 407 (= H 299). " IGA 20, 12 { = H 293). 



" Cf. 10, 22, 40. 



6* In a liile epigniin (AT C. 42) we read even 56s irXiov uu' <'\o/3es. 

 »T Cf. 27, 43. " 24. 



