LIFE OF SAPPHO

writer of comedies, in his play Sappho has made the
poetess beloved by Archilochus and Hipponax.!

Maximus of Tyre Dissertations: The love of the
fair Lesbian, if it is right to argue from one age
to another, was surely the same as the art of love
pursued by Soerates. ‘They both appear to me to
have practised the same sort of friendship, he of
males, she of females, both declaring that their
beloved were many in number and that they were
captivated by all beautiful persons. What Alcibiades.
Charmides. and Phaedrus were to him, Gyrinna,”
Atthis, and Anactoria were to her, and what his
rival craftsmen, Prodicus, Gorgias, Thrasymachus and
Protagoras were to Socrates, that Gorgo and Andro-
meda were to Sappho, w ho sometimes takes them
to task and at others refutes them and dissembles
with them exactly like Socrates.

Ovid Lelters of the Heroines |Sappho io Phaon]:
I take no pleasure in the maids of Pyrrha or
Methymna nor in any of the daughters of Lesbos ;
Anactoria is a paltry jade, and so is the fair Cydro ;
my eyes see no beauty now in Atthis, or in a
hundred others whom [ have loved here so inno-
eently.2 Bold man! what once belonged to many
is now thine alone.

metaphor, can hardly have been fatal cf. Max. Tyr. ls. 9
below, was apparently transferred to Leucates from one of
these; the seeond Sappho is prob. a late invention in-
tended to reconcile the testimony of Sos own works with
the dramatic adaptations of the popular tradition to the
myth of Phaon and the Goddess (ef. dason and Hera Ap.
Rhod. 5. 6s 2 cf. Suid. “Apawa, Eust. /7, 2 play 11
not without evil imputation

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