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Pollux Pormiulary [on clothes of Amorgine and other
linen]: In the fifth Book of Sappho’s Lyric Poems we find:
And wrapped her all about with soft cambric ; !

amd they say that this means pieces of close-woven * linen.

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Diogenian Centuries of Proverbs :
I will have neither honey nor bees ;?

proverbial of those who will not take the sour with the
sweet.

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Clearchus in Athenaeus Juctors ot Dinner [why we carry
fluwers in our hands]: .... Or else it is that all lovers,
waxing wanton with their passion, are melted Ly the sight of
What is ripe and blooming. Fer it is certainly a thing quite
natural that those who believe themselves beautiful and
Dlooming should gather flowers. And that is why Perse-
phone and her companions are described as flower-gathering,
and Sappho says that she saw a very beautiful little girl
eulling flowers.

g. I saw one day a-gathering flowers
it The daintiest little maid.

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Maximus of Tyre Dissertations [what was the nature of
Soerates’ love-affairs]: Socrates chides Xanthippe for w eep-
ing when he is about to die, and so does Sappho chide her
daughter :

No house that serves the Muse hath room, I wis,
For grief; and so it ill beseemeth this.

1 or him 2 a twisted ? 3 7, ¢. if I can’t have the
honey without a re. . won't have either: cf. Parcem. 2. 527,
Tryph. Rhet. Gr. 8. 760 (Walz), who ascribes it to Sappho

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