LIFE OF SAPPHO

his mistress on one of his visits to Naucratis with
a cargo of Lesbian wine.!

Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner: Τὶ was the custom
among the ancients for the boys of noblest birth to
pour out the wine. . The beautiful Sappho often
sings the praises of her brother Larichus as serving
the wine in the town-hall of Mytilene.”

Strabo Geography [on Mytilene]: Contemporary
with Pittacus and Alcaeus was Sappho—a marvel,
In all the centuries since history began we know
of no woman who could be said with any approach
to truth to have rivalled her as a poet.

The Same [on Eresus]: This was the birthplace
of Theophrastus and Phanias, the Peripatetic philo-
sophers.®

Scholiast on Plato Phaedrus: Sappho: A. lyric
— daughter of Scamandronymus; a native of
Mytilene.*

Parian Chronicle: From the time when Sappho
went from Mytilene to Sicily when banished |the
second time, 334 years,| in the archonship of the
earlier Critias at Athens and the rule of the Gamori
or Landowners at Syracuse (g.c. 598).®

Eusebius Chronicle: Olympiad 45. 2 (nc. 598):
Flourished the poets Sappho and Alcaeus.

PP. 15. 63, Parvem. App. 4. 51 = ef. Sch. Jt. 30, 954
She w ould have mentioned S. had he believed her to have
been born there 4 cf. Mosch. 3. 92 5 the date

occurs in a gap, but is prob. right; in any case it must lie

betw. 605 and 591
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