SAPPHO

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Pausanias Description af Greer [the Styx]: Things of horn
and of howe, ivon and copper, lead and tin and silver and
electruin, all are corroded by the water; and gold sullers
like the other metals. And yet. that gold remains pure of
fust is both declared by the Lesbian poetess and proved
by our own experience. It seems that God has given the
least-considered of things power over those that are deemed
to be of great price.

e.g. For gold is pure of rust.

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Scholiast on Pindar [‘that immortal coverlet. ὦν νι the
Giolden Fleece}: He calls it immortal beeause it was golden ;
and gold is indestructible ; compare Sappho :
e.g. Gold is a child of Zeus; no moth nor worm
devours it, and it overcomes the strongest of
mortal hearts. !

Book VI
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Hephaestion Handbook of Metre (The lonieum a majore]:
Sometimes they use ionics alternately with trochaics, in some
lines substituting the second paeon tor an ionic, and in some
employing seven-* time’ trochaics instead of six-* time,’ as:

a

1 the Scholiast on Hesiod ascribes this to Pindar ὅς
Paroem. Gr. 2. 808 (Ξαπφοῦς)

" 3," Ε oe :
Tod χρυσυῦ Ἀέγοντα' κεῖνον σῆς ob Kis δάμναται, ὡς ἄσηπτον
Kis δάπτει, Bporéar) ascribe Acs «.7.A. LO Pind. (Vr. 222 Rye. ),

perh. rightly
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