LIFE OF SAPPHO

the daily use of which made women fall in’ love
with him.!' Amone those who did so was one who
in her disappointment is said to have thrown her-
self from Mount Leucates. and from this came ihe
custom now in vogue of hiring people once a vear
to throw themselves from that plece into the sea?

Suidas Lewicon: Phaon: <You are a Phaon both
in looks and deeds>>*; this proverb is used of those
who are lovely and disdainful. They say that this
Phaon was beloved by many women, among them
Sappho, not the poetess but another Lesbian, who
failing to win him threw herself from the Leueadian
Cliff.

Athenaeus Deetors at Dinner: According to Cra-
tinus, Aphrodite when beloved by Phaon concealed
him among the τ fair wild-lettuces’: but aceording
to the younger Marsyas the hiding-place was among
the growing barley.

* Ovid Letters of the Heroines [Sappho to Phaon]:
The maidens of Sicily are now thy prey: what have
I to do with Lesbos? [am fain to be a Sicilian.

Athenaeus Doctors αὐ Diner: Antiphanes in

his Sappho makes the poetess Ww) omens riddles
Teo quote the Sappho of Ephippus -—
Diwnpare Timocles’ Sappho . . . :—WDiphilus, the

49 with the inconsistent addition, *tlhis is the P. in whose
heneur as der lover many a song has heen written by
apple’; er. Phot. Jae. Μευκάτης. baer, Phot. Bis. 153
Hist of Leveadian (ΠῚ lewpers without mention of Sv, Lue,
7. Meow? ἡ. 2 substitutes Chios for Lesbos}, Ov. Ap. 15, 1758
(uoniuses. the “two Swpphos’) aw. 2. 18. Sak. Svat. θυ.
5. 8. 155 isubstitutes Calelis ταί) for με απ, Ἄγε,
Poy ma. a, Adelie, 3. 1, Ane. 4. ὦ. 2, Bp oe, Pin.
N., 22.9, Plant. afi. 1246