SAPPHO

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Biyneleyionn Migramn,  δαύω * Tsleep’s Sappho:
May you sleep in the besoem of ἃ tender
comrade ..

And Heredian says that the word occurs once in Sappho.

129 To THe MusrEs

Hephaestion Tfindieot of Metre [on *uneonnectahle’
metres}: And the line which is composed of two ithyphallics
is used by Sappho:

O come hither, ve Muses, from your golden
[house]...

1301 To Ctei%s

‘he Same: Another kind of ‘unconmectable* line which
similarly invelves the first ‘antipathy. is formed from a
trochaic dimeter acatalectic and an iambic of three feet andl
a half which by a shifting of the caesura becomes ἃ trochaic
procatalectic :

I have a pretty little daughter who looks like a
golden flower, my darling Cleis, for whom I would
not take all Lydia, nay nor lovely [Lesbos].

Of these lines, the second is shown by the caesura to be
compoged, as 1 have said. of the trochaic dimeter acatalectic
and the iambie of three fect and a half; the tirst, having the
caesura a svilable earlier, becomes procatalectic, composed
of ἃ trochaie of three feet and a half. " ἔστι wo: κᾶλα wats.
and a dimeter acatalectic, ὁ χρυσίσισιν ἀνθέμοισιν + while the
third consists of a hypercatalectic trechaic, " ἀντὶ ras ἔγω οὐδὲ
Awd er anda bravhveataleetio, ὁ πῦσαν δ᾽ éptevar =

ἐπί, Sch. Heph: the ancient metrists made KA. ὦ τω.
reading S stresses with ‘rests’ after πάϊς. uipoar, ail
Δυδίαν : edd. who suppose them wrong read 7 stresses and
no rests. taking yp. as 3 svll.. KAefes and AUS. as 2

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