SAPPHO
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Athenaeus Deetors af Dinner [on the eyes of lovers]: And
Sappho, too, says to the man exceedingly admired for his
good looks:

Stand up, look me in the face as friend to friend,
and unveil the charm that is im your eyes.

121

Maximus of Tyre /issertetions: And what his rivals
Pradicus and Gorgias and Thrasymachus were to Socrates,
that were Gorgo and Andromeda to Sappho. At one time
she chides these rivals, at another she refutes them in argu-
ment and uses the very same forms of irony that Socrates
does. For instance, Socrates [as an opening to a discussion
in which he refutes him] says ‘A very good day to Master
Του, 1 and Sappho [in similar circumstances] begins :

A very good day to a daughter of very many
kings.

122

Hephaestion Handbuok of Metre [the Ionteum a minore]:
And indeed whole poems have been written in ionics, for
instance Aleman’s . . ., and Sappho’s:

Why does the heavenly swallow, daughter of
Pandion [vex] me . . .??

1 Plat. Jon 530a: the syntax suggests formality Ξ,,
ran perh. thus: ‘by bringing in the new season?’ 8. wrote
much in this metre, cf. Trich. 8 (Heph. 395 Cons.)