Ibycus the poet closed his eyes, pressed his lips to Mother Earth, and died. |
Ibycus was a native of Rhegium, a colony of mixed Ionians and Dorians. |
Then Ibycus the poet raised his arms to his brothers the birds. |
Ibycus was a poet-errant, carrying his songs from state to state. |
Ibycus also says that the Asopus, a river of Sicyon,2299 flows from Phrygia. |
Excellence of workmanship is particularly noticeable in what remains of Ibycus, Simonides, Bacchylides. |