LIFE OF SAPPHO

things; Anacreon was attended by Persuasion ; and
Lesbian Alcaeus spake varied notes unto the wise
Aeolian dame.! But Sappho was not ninth among
the men; rather is she written tenth in the list of
the lovely Muses.

Catullus: . . . thou maiden more cultured than
the Sapphic Muse.

Horace: ... Still breathes the love, still lives
the flame, which the Aeolian maid confided to her
strings.

The Same: The virile Sappho shapes her Muse
with the metre of Archilochus.

Palatine Anthology: Pinytus on Sappho: This
tomb hath the bones and the dumb name of Sappho,
but her wise utterances are immortal.

The Same: Tullius Laureas on the same: When
you pass my Aeolian grave, stranger, call not the
songstress of Mytilene. dead. For’ tis true this was
built by the hands of men,and such works of human-
kind sink swi ftly into chivnion ; ; yet if you ask after
me for the sake of the holy Muses trom each of
whom I haye taken a flower for my posy of nine?
you shall know that | have escaped the darkness of
Death, and no sun shall ever be that keepeth not
the name of the lyrist Sappho.

Plutareh Pythian Oracles: ‘Do you not see,’ he
asked, ‘what a charm the songs of Sappho hare to
enchant and bewitch the listener ἢ

1 oy in his Aeolian book ? 2 her nine ‘ Books’

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