. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ALC/EUS (Sixth Century B. C.) (, a contemporary of the more famous poet whom headdressed as ^Wiolet-crowned, pure, sweetly-smiling Sappho,was a native of Mitylene in Lesbos. His period of workfell probably between 610 and 580 B. C. At this time his nativetown was disturbed by an unceasing contention for power betweenthe aristocracy and the people; and Al-casus, through the vehemence of his zealand his ambition, was among the leadersof the warring faction. By the accidentsof birth and education he was an aristo-crat, and in pol
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ALC/EUS (Sixth Century B. C.) (, a contemporary of the more famous poet whom headdressed as ^Wiolet-crowned, pure, sweetly-smiling Sappho,was a native of Mitylene in Lesbos. His period of workfell probably between 610 and 580 B. C. At this time his nativetown was disturbed by an unceasing contention for power betweenthe aristocracy and the people; and Al-casus, through the vehemence of his zealand his ambition, was among the leadersof the warring faction. By the accidentsof birth and education he was an aristo-crat, and in politics he was what is nowcalled a High Tory. With his brothers,Cicis and Antimenidas, two influentialyoung nobles as arrogant and haughtyas himself, he resented and opposed theslightest concession to democracy. Hewas a stout soldier, but he threw awayhis arms at Ligetum when he saw thathis side was beaten, and afterward wrote a poem on this performance, apparently not in the least mortified bythe recollection. Horace speaks of the matter, and laughingly con-
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