Note 269 — Chapter VI · CHARACTERISTICS OF FISHERMEN IN GREECE AND ROME—POVERTY “THE BADGE OF ALL OUR TRIBE”—DEITIES OF FISHING
Reading edition
In Anth. Pal., VII. 305, this epigram is headed in the MS. Ἀδδαίου Μιτυληναίου, which is obviously wrong, for either Μιτυληναίου should be Μακεδόνος, or Ἀδδαίου is a mistake. Bergk assigns it to Alcæus of Messine—probably with reason, as it is not unlike his style, and his name is more than once confused with Alcæus of Mitylene, the famous lyric poet. (For Alcæus of Messene, see Mackail’s Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (London, 1890), p. 297 f.) Stadtmüller the latest editor of Anth. Pal. conjectures as author Alpheus of Mitylene, but unconvincingly to Mackail and other authorities. Translated by E. W. Peter—The Poets and Poetry of the Ancients, London, 1858.
ὁ γριπεὺς Διότιμος ὁ κύμασιν ὁλκάδα πιστὴν κἠν χθονὶ τὴν αὐτὴν οἶκον ἕχων πενίης, κ.τ.λ.
Cf. Etruscus Messenius, Anth. Pal., VII. 381, 5 f.
ὄλβιος ὁ γριπεὺς ἰδίη καὶ πόντον ἐπέπλει νηΐι, καὶ ἐξ ἰδίης ἕδραμεν εἰς Ἀΐδην.