SAPPHO
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Pollux Moewimlary: Tt is said that the first mention of the
word γλαπύς ‘mantle’ is in Sappho, where she says of Love:

come from heaven and throw off his purple

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Prisvian Gremmar: Conversely, in certain names ending
in es the Greek poets give -cvs for -és,as .. . Areus for Ares,

for instance Sappho :

And Areus says that he could carry off Hephaestus

by force.

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Stobaeus Aatholegy [on folly]: Sappho, to a woman of no
education :

When you are dead you will lie unremembered for
evermore; for you have no part in the roses that
come from Pieria; nay, obscure here, you will move
obseure in the house of Death, and flit to and fro

among such of the dead as have no fame.

1 perh. line 1 ran 1 dreamt last night. Atthis, that 1
saw the wily Love come’ ete: ef. Didyimus ap. Amm. 147
Ξ ef. Plut. reer, Con. 48 where S. is sail to have written
it ‘to a wealthy wonmn, aml Qa. Cony. 3.1.2 where it is
‘to a woman of no refinement or learning’

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