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grbs-11	Vestrheim, Gjert	Alcman fr.26: A Wish for Fame	2004	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5082	186	61	Although the epithets in the address to the girls specifically point to their singing, Hommel (389) claims that the comparison between the choir and the halcyons solely concerns their youthful movements—the cerylus that Alcman longs to be is young, and flies with the certainty and fearlessness that he himself no longer enjoys.12 The parallell between aged poet/ young girls and weak cerylus/strong females thus has to be abandoned, as a general idea is substituted for a more specific one. Mirabilia 23 = De animalibus fr.54B Dorandi1 hy does the speaker in Alcman’s poem wish to be aWcerylus?	cache/grbs-11.pdf	txt/grbs-11.txt