LIFE OF SAPPHO

Themistius Orations:! . . . And beauty itself is
beautiful only when accompanied by truth, whereas
no falsehood is beautiful. be it called cajolery y or
adulation. We may aequiesce in the unbounded —
or shall I say excessive —praises given their beloved
by Sappho and Anacreon, because both loved and
lover were private individuals and there was no
danger to be apprehended if their praises should
turn the beloved head. But the love of which I
speak now is Imperial, and so is the beloved.* .

Plutarch On Musie: The Mixolydian ‘mode’ is
particularly sensuous or emotional, suited to tragedy.
According to Aristoxenus this mode was invented
by Sappho. from whom it was taken by the writers
of tragedy.®

Athenaeus Doctors αἱ Dinner: Menaechmus of
Sicyon in his Treatise on Artists declares that Sappho
was the first to use the péctis.4

The Same: Chamaeleon in his treatise On

Sappho. . .

Suidas Lewicon: Dracon of Stratoniceia :—A gram-
marian, the writer of books .. . On the Metres of
Sappho.

Photius Library: Excellent selections were read
from the twelve Books of Sopater the Sophist. The
work is a compilation from many excellent histories

and tracts. . The second Book includes passages
from the first ‘Book of the Epitomes of Pamphila
daughter of Soteridas . . .. from Artemon the Mag-

nesian’s Y'ales of Feminine JFirtae, and from the

fingers (Ibid. G25 b, 4), σον τ ται by Suidas (ahove) with the
πλῆκτρον or quill

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