LIFE OF SAPPHO

Hermesianax quoted by Athenaeus Doctors af
Domer: .. . And Lesbian Aleaeus, thou knowest in
how many a serenade he thrumined out his delight-
ful love of Sappho: the poet loved that nightingale
ef hymns and vexed the man of Teos with his
eloquence.?

Athenaeus [on the Same]: In these lines Herne-
sianax is wrong in making Sappho contemporary
with Anacreon. She belongs to the time of Alvattes
father of Croesus, whereas he is coeval with Cyrus
and Polycrates.

Ovid Letters of the Heroines [Sappho to Phaon]:
was but six years old when the bones of a p: ir
received the too- early drink-offering of my tears.

Preserved by the Scholiast on Pindar: On the
Nine Lyric Poets: Now shall you learn the birth-
place and lineage of the great lyric poets, and
behold both their fathers and their language. T'irst
was Alcaeus of Mytilene, the most honoured [or
eldest] of them all, a resonant son of Aeolus; and
next to him one of the same city and speech, Sappho
daughter of Eurygyus and Cleis . . ..

Suidas Lexicon: Sappho (1st notice): Daughter of
Simon or of Funominus, or of Eurygyus.2 or of
FRerytus, or of Semus, or of Scamon,° or of Euarchus,
or of Scamaudronymus : mother’s name Cleis. A
Lesbian of Eresus.* a lyric poetess : flourished in the
42nd Olympiad (n.c. G1 2-609) along with Alcacus,
Stesichorus, and Pittaeus. She had three brothers,

᾽ οὐ, Ὅν. Bp. 15. 59 2 the exaet form of the name is
doubtful τ εἷς bgt we son of Larichus of Mytilene, fep.
Alexander, Died. 17. 27 3 abbrev. of Scamandronymus

4 perh. wrong, see ll

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