SAPPHO

OGhiter Tueta of Diogenes the Cynie . . .. and lastly
from the eighth Book of Sappho.}

HWephaestion UManulhook of Metre: Yirst the epi-
chorinmbic, — the Sapphic cleven-syllable, as
(fr. 1)... Tt occurs also in Alexeus—and it is
uncertain hile of the two pocts invented it, though
it is called after Sappho.

Scholiast on the Same [on varieties of the heroic
hexameter|: The Sapphic variety is the line which
both begins and ends with a spondee, thus (dad
= 1)

Hephaestion Handbook [on poems}: Poems are
ealled * common’ when they are formed of ὁ systems’
or stangzes and have those systems all composed of
lines in the same metre, as for instance the poems
in the Second and ‘Third Books of Sappho, in which
the stanzas are of two lines and those Hnes similar.?

THE POEMS OF SAPPHO

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σε eb by Sappho tan Attic vase picture ες 430 nc : 3
The words I begin are words of air, but, for all that,

good to hear.

anbject “see also for S's metres Teph. ete. Consbruch
preset, Ati], Furt., Vevent., Mar. Viet., Plot. ? this intro-
ductory poom apyerently stood first in Sos own collection of

her poems; cf. Jul. Ep. 30 quoted p. 176
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