SAPPHO

thou bringest the goat. thou bringest her child home
to the mother ;1

here the charm lies in the repetition of the werd + Dringest.

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Scholiast on Hermogenes Avneds of Siule: For sume kinds
of style express but one sort of idea, for instance the pure
or simple kind; others two, three, or even four, for instance
the noble and these which resemble it, sueh as the kinds
used by historians—which, indeed, as Thuevdides says,
approximate to those employed by mythographers because
they are concerned with chronology—, or such as give
pleasure to the senses. sight. hearing, smell, taste, touch. as
Homer : i J/iad 8471): or Sappho: (4); and:

Like the pippin blushing high

On the tree-top beneath the sky,

Where the pickers forgot it—nay,

Could not reach it so far away ;*
or Theocritus: (S. 78) and: (3. 54).

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Demetrius Gna Style: The so-called epiphoneme may be
detined as a phrase which adds adornment, and it is supreme
as an elevator of style. It should be remembered that a
phrase either aids the sense or adorns it. For instance, the
sense is aided by such a phrase as ‘Like the hyacinth’ ete.
while it is adorned by the words which follow. ‘and it still
blooms’ ete. The addition thus made to the foregoing
sentence is clearly an adornment or embellishment. . -
general the epiphoneme is like the shows or displays of the
rich, such as the cornices and trigly phs of their houses and
the purple borders of their robes. For it is essentially a mark
of wealth in words,

the bride to the bridegroom “ef, Sch. Theocr. 11. 59:
see also Long. Just. 3. 33: deseriptive of the bride, cf.

Himer. 1. 16
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