LIFE OF SAPPHO

points out in his writings that Sappho! and Alcaeus
made comrades of their books.

Maximus of Tyre Dissertations: Socrates chides
Xanthippe for weeping when he is about to die,
and so does Sappho chide her daughter: ‘No house
that serveth the Muses hath room for grief, and so

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it ill-beseemeth this.’ 2

Palatine Anthology: Plato ou Sappho: Some say
there are nine Muses: but they should stop to
think. Look at Sappho of Lesbos; she makes a
tenth.

The Same: Nossis on herself: If you are bound
for Mytilene. stranger. the city of fair dances which
kindled the fierce flame of Sappho’s lovelinesses,3 go
not away till you have told them that I was dear to
the Muses, and a daughter of Locris, and that you
know my name is Nossis.*

The Same : Dioscorides on sappio of Mytilene, the
lyric poetess, the wouder of Ivric poetry: Sweetest
of all love-pillows unto the burning voung, sure am
I that Pieria or ivied Helicon must honour thee,
Sappho, along with the Muses, seving that thy spirit
is their spirit, thou Muse of Acolian Eresus: or that
Hymen God of Weddings hath thee with him when
he standeth brieht torch in hand over bridal beds,

1 Aero says * Anarresn 2 this little poem is printed
here because it proves with tts contest that S. died quietly
@t home: for her age ai death ef. tr. 10 3) or ‘Graces,’
the name of her book vcr. {0} ἢν Ist ‘ see also ALP.
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