SAPPHO

too, are more apt to look with favour on that whieh
is adorned with flowers, whereas they turn away
from ail that goes ungarlanded ;

for she urges the makers of the sacrifice to wreathe their

heads on the plea that that which is the more adorned with
flowers is the more pleasing to the Gods.

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Athenaeus Lectors at Dinner: Do you think that delicacy
or refinement without virtue is a thing to be desired? Why,
Sappho, whe was a woman out and out and a poetess, tov,
hesitated nevertheless to separate refinement from honour,
foc she says:

But I love delicacy, and the bright and the
beautiful belong for me to the desire of the sun-
light ; 7
making it clear that the desire to live comprehended for

her the bright or famous and the beautiful or honourable;
and these belong to virtue.

1192 To Atcaeus

Aristotle Rhetoric: For we are ashamed of what is shame-
ful. whether in word or deed or intention; compare Sappho's
answer when Alcaeus said, ‘I fain would tell you something,
but shame restrains me τ᾿

If your desire were of things good or fair, and
your tongue were not mixing a draught of ill words,
then would not shame possess your eye, but you
would make your plea outright.

1 woce Athenaeus, δὰ probably means physical brightness
and beauty; without them life weuld not be worth living
* ef. Cram. if 2. 1. 266. 25 (takes this and Alc. 124 as from
an amoeboeic poem of 8S.)

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