SAPPHO

Wealth without worth is no harmless housemate :

but the blending of the two is the top of fortune.

This Pindar declares to be the lot of Theron.

1012 To rue Graces anp THE Muses

Hephaestion Hindiwek of Metre fon the choriambic]:
Some on the other hand end with an amphibrach or a
hacchius, for example the dimeter.... , the trimeter
; . and the tetrameter—which is used in longer
suijuences—, such as the lines of Sappho beginning

O hither, soft Graces and lovely-tresséd Muses.

102
Atilins Fortunatianus Ov the Metres of Horuce [Horace’s
Lyin, die per vines}: In Anavreon we tind it .the choriambhic
dimeter catalectic): . . .. , and in Sappho:
a sweet-voicéd maiden

1085
Hephaestion /ivd : Of the (antispastic) tetrameter the pure
catalectic is like this:
The delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea: what can
we do?
Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your garments.

104
Pausanias Deseription of Grevce: Pamphos, who composed
the oldest Athenian hymns, called Linus ‘ Oetolinus’ or
‘Linus Dead’ at the climax of the mourning for him. And
Sappho ot Lesbos, having learnt the name of * Linus Dead’
from the lines of Pamphos, samy vi * Adonis’ and * Linus
Dead’ both together.

1 of. At. Fort. 254 who read vor 2 ascription based on
Paus. 9.29. 8 see below): one of the chorus seems to have
played the Goddess

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