SAPPHO

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Demewins Gr Aver): And there is a charm peealiarly
Sapphic in metabole or change. when having satd something
she turns round aml. as it were. changes her mined. tor
instance:

Up with the rafters high,

Ho for the wedding "1

Raise them high, ye joiners,
Ho for the wedding !

The bridegroom ’s as tall as Ares,
Ho for the wedding !

Far taller than a tall man,

Ho for the wedding !

Towering as the Lesbian poet
Ho for the wedding !

Over the poets of other lands,
Ho for the wedding !

as it were interrupting herself because she has used an
impossible hyperbole, no one really being as tall as Ares.

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The Same: Sometimes, too, Sappho derives charm from
anaphora or repetition, as in this passage. of the Evening
Star:

Evening Star that bringest back all that lightsome
Dawn hath scattered afar, thou bringest the sheep.

1 the refrain, emitted by Dem.. oeeurs in’ Heph., who
quotes 11. 1-5 τὸ illustrate the ‘intervening’ retrain: 1], 9-1]
from Dem, £7. 146 + by comparison, moreover, S. says of the
very tall man ‘Towering. ete.” ς for the comparison there
vonveys charm rather than a sense of size? 2 ef. FM.
γα. 3, 2M. ie. 45. AG. 212) 45. 440. 32. Sch. Ear.
Or. 1260, Cram. A.O. 2. 444. 17

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