SAPPHO

621

Athenaeus Decfors af Dinner (on eges|: Sappho makes three
syllables of ὠὸν ‘egg’ as (97), and again:

far whiter than an egg .

63
Antiatticist : Sappho uses μύρρα
myrrh

for σμύρνα in her second Book.

64

Pollux Meewulary: Anacreon ... . says that anise, too,
was used for garlands, as indeed by Sappho (117) and Aleacus ;
the two latter, moreover, speak also of celery.

oaths ρ .
e.g... . garlands of celery
65
From a Third-Century Papyrus :
. . . But come, dear maidens, [Jet us end our song},
for day is at hand.

(Εν or?| tne Porms or Sappno)?

66 | MarriaGe or Heeror ann ANpRomMacneE|
From the Same:

... Cyprus...... came a herald sped by

the might of his switt legs bringing speedily these

1 ef. Hust. Od. 1686. 49 “see opp. ἢ. 3

perh, current in antiquity see on 13 and 48: this may De the
end of the last book (x; in the edition arranged according to
subject-matter (hence μέλη not μελῶν below as title of the whole
collection Ὁ) 4 restored by Hunt, Lobel. Wil. and £ (hid..

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