SAPPHO

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Eustathius on the 70 τ: Note that in the words ‘around
the bright moon” we are not to umlerstand the moon at her
full; fur then the stars are dim because they are outshone,
as Sappho somewhere says:

Around the fair moon the bright beauty of the

stars is lost them when her silver lieht illumes the
world at its fullest.

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Hermovenes Avieds of Styl [on sweetness or charm]: All
élean and honest pleasures may be described simply, ag for
instance the beauty of a place, the variety of trees and
plants, the sweet diversity of rivers and brooks. Such
things give pleasure to the eve when they are seen, and to
the ear when they are told of. Compare Sappho :

And by the cool waterside the breeze rastles
amid the apple-branches, and the quivering leaves
shed lethargy ;

and all that precedes and follows this,

5 To Apuropire

Strabo Geaavapiy : Now if in speaking of the Phocnicians
Homer [7.4.83] adds mention of the inhabitants of their
mother city Sidon, he is using a common form of speech, as
tor instanee, . . . and ‘he eame to Ida and Gargarus’ (70.
8. 48) and Sappho’s line:

Whether thou [art at} Cyprus and Paphos or at
Panormus .. .?

‘ot. a, 4.7. ἃ. 238, 31 Ξ οἵ, ἃ 1. HWermoe, RL, Or,
S83 Walz (see sr. ΕΔ} * doubtless from an inveeation to

Cypris, perh. Ist line of 6
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