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Alcman looked at the girl surprised. "Art thou not, maiden," said he, "one of the many female disciples whom the successors of Pythagoras the Samian have enrolled?" "Nay," said Cleonice, modestly; "but my mother had listened to great teachers of wisdom, and I speak imperfectly the thoughts I have heard her utter when she told me she had no terror of the grave."
ALCMAN. The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. "LISTEN to me," said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. "The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence.
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The personal history of Tyrtaeus, and his warlike songs which roused the fainting courage of the Spartans during the second Messenian war, have already been mentioned. Alcman was originally a Lydian slave in a Spartan family, and was emancipated by his master. He lived shortly after the second Messenian war.
"And more than all," said Alcman, in a loud voice, "if he lives, he will break down the Spartan government. Ye will not let this man die?" "Never!" exclaimed the whole assembly. Alcman gazed with a kind of calm and strange contempt on the flashing eyes, the fiery gestures of the throng, and then said, coldly, "So then ye would fight for one man?" "Ay, ay, that would we."
Let us speak of the Land of Souls." "Who ever returned from that land to tell us of it?" said Pausanias. "Voyagers that never voyaged thither save in song." "Son of Cleombrotus," said Alcman, "hast thou not heard that in one of the cities founded by thine ancestor, Hercules, and named after his own name, there yet dwells a Priesthood that can summon to living eyes the Phantoms of the Dead?"
Did they perish by hunger, by the sword, in the dungeon or field? No; those brave men were the founders of Ephesus." "But the Samians were not Spartans," mumbled the old Helot. "As ye will, as ye will," said Alcman, relapsing into his usual coldness. "I wish you never to strike unless ye are prepared to die or conquer." "Some of us are," said the younger Helot.
Then seating himself before a table he began to write, with slowness and precision, whether as one not accustomed to the task or weighing every word. When he had concluded, he again turned his eyes to the sleeper. "How tranquil! Was, my sleep ever as serene? I will not disturb him to the last." The fold of the curtain was drawn aside, and Alcman entered noiselessly.
Passing over Simonides of Amorgos, who is chiefly celebrated for a very ungallant but ingenious and smooth satire on women, and over Tyrtae'us, whose animating and patriotic odes, as we have seen, proved the safety of Sparta in one of the Messenian wars, we come to the first truly lyric poet of Greece Alcman originally a Lydian slave in a Spartan family, but emancipated by his master on account of his genius.
"Your Alcman seems one of no common intelligence, and your gentleness to him does not astonish me, though it seems often to raise a frown on the brows of your Spartans." "We have lain on the same bosom," said Pausanias touchingly, "and his mother was kinder to me than my own.
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