SAPPHO

: and cassia and frankincense went up in
smoke. Meanwhile the elder women raised a loud
ery, and all the men shouted amain a delightful song
of thanksgiving unto the Far-Darting God of the
lyre, and bymned the praise of the god-like Hector
and Andromache.

(Enp or THE Poems or Sappno)!

67

Scholiast on Aristophanes: The weaving of varlands was
done by young people and lovers ;—this refers to the custom
whereby “the women wove the garlands among the ancients ;

cf. Sappho:

And the maids ripe for wedlock wove garlands.”

Boox II]
683 To Tire Graces

Argument to Theoeritus 28: And it is written in the
Aeolie dialect and in the Sapphie sixteen-syllable metre ot :

Hither, pure rose-armed Graces, daughters of
Zeus.

poem 3 as it is taken as an exampie of the metre, this
is probably the Ist - of the Ist poem of the Book: see
also Philostr. Jin. 2. Rust. Od, 1420. 58 and of. Heph. 35

(ᾧ τὸ τρίτον ὅλον ta γέγραπται)