Ibycus Bot

Internet machine tweeting fragments from Ibycus, lyric poet of Ancient Greece. [as translated by D. A. Campbell.]

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...(daughter) of noble father... fresh... red... babbles... children... lovely (child?) (fr.282Avi)

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among them foremost with the spear went swift-footed Achilles and great valiant Telamonian Ajax (fr.282xi)

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...girl...unless he, going down (once) to the girl's room, had his melting heart completely tinged (fr.282Cxiii)

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Glad is he who brings (favour?)...(whether it is?) (her?) sister's son (or?)... (fr.282Cxiv)

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... Aphrodite(?)... (fr.282Avii)

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...pure... (fr.282Axvi)

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...aegis-bearing... (fr.282Cvi)

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shoot of Enyalius (fr.319)

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myrtles and violets and gold-flower and apple-blossoms and roses and soft bay leaves (fr.315)

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for a long time he sat (beside him? beside her?) frozen in amazement. (fr.283)

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club...not even if clad in the murky woes of Oedipus or Ino would he rid himself of his passion (fr.282Biii)

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club...not even if clad in the murky woes of Oedipus or Ino would he rid himself of his passion (fr.282Biii)

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the noble desire (of those waiting?) (fr.318b)

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...(radiance?)...great...victory...Nicagora...(women) of the trailing robes...honour... (fr.282Cii)

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but for me love rests at no season (fr.286)

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... golden (apples of the Hesperides?)... earth... ivory (fr.282Axii)

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and there is... Themis clad... (fr.282Ai)

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...guile-weaving...limbs...overwhelmingly...(demesne-holding deity?)...For...lady (goddess)...head(s)...immortal goddess(es) (fr.282Axv)

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Meleagrid Althaea (fr.290)

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Lacedaemon famed for its men, always... with choruses and horses... deep (Eurotas?) (fr.282Ai)