LIFE OF SAPPHO

Lesbos, trip it delicately in the whirling measure
on your way to the shining precinct of the bull-
faced Hera, andithere take up the fair dance unto
the Goddess with Sappho fer vour leader golden
Jyre in hend., Happy ve in that delightseme round |
ye shall think. for sure, that ve are hearing some
sweet hymn of Calliopé herself. 1

Julian Letters: Vo Alypias:—I was already re-
eovered when | received the Geography, though
your missive was nove the less welcome for that.
Not only are the maps in it better done, but rou
have given it a teuch of literary distinction by
prefixing the iambic motto—not such iambics εἰς
sing the fight with Bupalus, to adapt Callimachus.*
but of the sort which the beautiful Sappho chueses
to fit to her melodies.

Pausanias De seription of Greece: . . , Anacreon
of Teos, who was the first Let atter Sappho to make
love his principal theme. ᾿

Athenaeus Dorlors at Dinner: 1, too, to quote
Epicrates’ fnti-Leis * am letter-perfect in all the
love-songs of Sapplo, Meletus. Cleomenes, and
Lamythius.’

The Same: Clearchus. in the second Book of his
Trewiise on Love Poetry, declares that the love-songs
of Gnesippus and his Lwerian Diities, as they are
called, are quite as wood as Sappho's or Anacreon’s

Ἐ αἰ. ALT. 7. MOT vulewve) * oe. the choliamibies protived
by Callim. te his Joe iyes veferring to ΠῚ} πον κ᾿ laanpuens fin
that were) on Megane oul containing the words φέρων
faeBer υὐ μά νν ἀξίλοντα τὴν Βευπάλειον, ol. Oe. Jp. 1011

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