SAPPHO
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Apollonius Premwens :”"Awwe. ‘us’ or ὁ mes is used in Aeolic :
compare :
-/you buFngme.. .;

Sappho in her first Book.
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Maximus of Tyre Déssertutrons: Diotima says (in Plato's
Sympestine that Love flourishes when he has plenty and
dies when he is in want; Sappho, putting these character-
isties together, called him bitter-sweet (Sl) and

Ϊ . τη 1
giver of pain.

Socrates calls love sophistical, Sappho a

weaver of tales.

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Julian Letter io Eieeeninss . ©. Wat 1 should tly to the
very foot of your mountains

to embrace you, my beloved,

as Sappho says.

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Philostratus Pietures: The maidens so vied with one an-
other, rose-armed, sauvyv-eved, fair-chevked, honeyv-voiced (Ὁ
—this is Sappho’s delightful epithet.

Aristaenetus Lifters: Before the bride-chamber rang out
the wedding-song from such of the maidens xs were the more
musiea] and centle-voiced *—this is Sappho’s most delightful
ward.

e.g. . . . to gentle-voiced maidens

2 of. ge 42 2 Ar. is prob. imitating Phil., in whose
mss ‘honey-voiced’ is prob. a mistake

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