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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


shoot of Enyalius (fr.319)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Meleagrid Althaea (fr.290)


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


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