SAPPHO
351 ἼἼο Love

Stholiast on Apollouius of Rhodes γεν νγεν ἦσαι 3. 26 [ΠΟΥ
son’): Apollonius makes Love the son of Aphrodite, but
Sappho of Earth and Heaven.

Scholiast on Theorritus 15. 2 (from what Gol soever
sprung ἢ: He is doubtful of whom to call Love the son;
fer Hesiol . . . aml Sappho, of Aphrodite or of Earth and
Heaven.

Pausanias 7Mervetiv uf Greer: Hesiod I know has made
Chaos the first creation, and then Earth and Tartarus and
Love. And in the poems of Sappho the Lesbian there are
many mutually inconsistent sayings about Love,

e.g. Dearest Offspring of Earth and Heaven

321 To Hesperus

Himerius Devamefions: You must be as it were an evening
star,
Fairest of all the stars that shine,

us Sappho says in her Ode to Hesperus.

33 [To Persuasion]

Seholiast om Hesiod Works στ αν [ queenly Per-
snasion 1: Sappho calls Persuasion the daughter of
Aphrodite.

e.g. Man-beguiling daughter of Aphrodite

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91
From a Seventh-Century Manuscript :

=~. Mamet... . . aitogether. .« . fit]
Iecan ... . shall be to me ... . shine back

! οὗ Bim. 3. 17

1 Wil. 2 B: mss κάλλιστος