Alcman

But Alcman asserts that it is the same as the apple, when he says, "less than a ."

Alcman, the great lyric poet of Sparta (Lydian by birth), brought the so-called Lydian measure to its highest perfection.

Compare with this the language of Alcman, as the poet has represented him in the following lines.

Alcman won his laurels at Sparta by the composition of this kind of hymn.

Alcman was a native of Sardis, and a slave of Agesilaus the Spartan.