SAPPHO

1231

Hephaestion Hendinak of Metre {the Jonicum a minore]: ΟἹ
the trimeters the avatalectic is exemplified by :

I dreamt that I talked with the Cyprus-born :
in Sappho.

124

Apollonius Pronowns: ἐμέθεν ‘of me’; it occurs frequently
in the Aeolic writers ; compare

and forgettest me.

"195, 126

Hephaestion HunJhusk of Metre: But when the ionic is
Ρ

‘broken’ or ‘impure, ? an iambic meter of six or seven
‘times’ precedes it giving the following result, as in

Sappho:
Andromeda has driven a fine bargain ;
and τ
Why, Sappho, [do you disdain] Aphrodite of the
many blessings °

Book VII
197

The Same [metres combining two ‘heterogeneous’ parts]:
And it (the earlier half of a certain ‘heterogeneous’ line)
ean also be divided as a three-foot anapaestic, if it begins
with a spondee, as in Sappho’s:

And thou thyself, Calliope

this, too, being a form of the prosodiac.

1 ef. Sch. Heph. 2 e.g. πολύολβον below