SAPPHO

22
Apollonius Prenowns τ ἔμεθεν fof me’: it occurs frequently
in the Aeolic writers; compare (124) and:

.. . Owhom in all the world do you love better

than me?

231

Etumolapewm Magnun: The Aeolic writers use .
ποθήω for ποθέω “1 long,’ as:
and I long and I yearn . .

. and

24 To Hecate
Philodemus /i‘y: And Sappho calls the Goddess Hecate’:

Aphrodite’s golden-shining handmaid . . .

25
Marius Plotius rt of Grammar [on the Dactvlic Metre!:
The dactylic Adonian dimeter catalectic was invented by
Sappho, and that is why it is also called the monoschematist
Sapphic. for it is always composed of a dactyl and a spondee ;

compare :

Woe for Adonis!

26
Apollonius Promewes [on of to him’): Aeolie writers use
the form with digamma (2) :
That man seems to himself. . .

1 also in Ft. Gud, 294. 40
199