5) Herodian Words τ Papelie?: οὐρανός ‘heaven’: Oxvione trisylabie nouns ending in ses preceled by ὦ whieh hes a consonant before it, never have the first svilable long by nature... And so otparus ig remarkable in begin. ning with a svUable whieh is long by nature. But Alcaens usex the form with either © or 4, saying apards with the thange of the diphthong «ow to ἦς and also, without the », jparos, 80 that the exception we are discussing does not hold in his ewe. And Sappho says, using the form with ὁ: A little thing of two eubits’ stature like me could not expect to touch the sky. 5+ Maximus of Tyre Disserfitieus > Socrates is wild with love Tor Phaedrus τ Sappho’s heart is shaken by love as oaks by a down-rushing wind. e.g. As for me, love has shaken my heart as a | down-rushing whirlwind that falls upon the oaks. δῦ Aldus Cormuvopin: . νὸς, For example, Ξαπφώ ‘Sappho- wenitive Ξαπφᾶς and Λητώ ‘ Leto” wenitive Anra@s, as is shown by such instances as (Ad-geda 62. Bek.) and from Sappho herself : . . . having had enough of Gorgo 56, 57 Hrerotian Words witht Perecied (on nowns in -/7): Let us return to our subject. which was τύλη * cushion,” a word not found in Attie writers but used by Sappho in her second Book : 1 αἴ Herodae 4. 75. Plut. Dendir. 595. Avnes. Fp. 142. Herch. nN to Ge