LIFE OF SAPPHO

Philostratus Life oj Apollonius of Tyana: So Apol
Jonius entered the king’s palace, accompanied by a
number of people who, knowing that he had been
pleased to hear of his arrival in Babylon, a
that this would gratify the king. As he passed i
however, the philosopher paid no attention whatever
to the w andere of the house, but walking by them
as though he were travelling on the high road, called
Damis to him and said: «You asked me the other
day the name of the fair Pamphylian who is said to
have been associated with Sappho and to have com-
posed the hymns they sing to Artemis of Perga in
the Aeolian and Pamphyli: 1} modes. ’ ‘So I dia,’ he
replied ; ‘but received no answer.’ ‘No, my friar,
but you received an account of the tunes of the
hymns and the names they are known by, and how
she changed the Acolian peculiarities into her own
noble Pamphylian. We then turned to something
else, and you did not repeat your original request.
Well, this clever woman’s name was Damophyla,
and ahs is said to have had girl-companions like
Sappho, and to have composed love-poems and
hymns just as she did. The hymns to Artemis are
her adaptations of her teacher’s work, deriving
ultimately from Sapphic originals.’

Horace Odes |[ll-omened was the day of your
planting, good tree . . .]: How near was I to be-
holding the realm of gloomy Proserpine with Aeacus
holding court, how near to seeing the abodes assigned
the holy dead, with Sappho singing clegies to the
Aeolian string upon the girls of her: city, and thee.
Alcaeus, chanting with fuller note and quill of
gold

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