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Demetrius o@ Style: And many similar instances of charm
might be adduced. Charm comes ale> from a form of
expression er from a metaphor, as of the cricket:

and pours down a sweet shrill song from
beneath his wings, when the Sun-god illumines the
earth with his down-shed © flame outspread :
or from, ete.

959
Zenobius Centuries of Proverbs :
Fonder of children than Gello;
a saying used of those who die young. or ot those who are
lovers of childven but spoil them: tor Cello was a girl who
died young, and of whom the Lesbians say that her ghost

haunts little children, ascribing to her the death of such as
die before they are grown up. It occurs in Sappho.

96
Herodian Words without Parallel: .... And:
Lo! to the soft arms of her whom I had shunned
so lung [1 have come back again}: *

ἀλλόμαν ‘shunned’ is for ἠλλύμην.

91 ὃ
Liymdopenm Madacwim: ὠϊόν τσ νὰ should be wialer-
stood that this word has the /, first beeause the (is found as
a separate syllable in Sappho:
They say that once upon a lime Leda found hidden
an egg of hy: icinthine hue.

Linserted by Zin Ale. 59 (my TOD. bat οἷν Wil Alera. (05
124: metrical arrangement and ememdation doubtful, but ef.

S2 ff 2 or perh.in the later sense * perpendicular’ 8 cf.
Suid, 4.11. 75. 9 (Pew), Hesyeh. Γελχώ and Γελλώ * read.
ing doubtful Sof. Ath. 2. 57d, Eust. Ov. 1686, 49