SAPPHO

Like the hyacinth which the shepherd tramples
underfoot on the mount: ain,and it still blooms purple
on the ground.!

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Cramer Jeelita (Oxford): ἀεί Sever” 2... and in Aeolic
it has three forms—at, for instance:

I shall be ever-maiden ;

αἰεί, and αἰέν.

Ibid. ἢσι “ quoth’:
‘We will give, quoth the father,

says Sappho; and Aleman uses τί for jai.

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Hephaestion Handbook of Metre [on dactylivs]: The Aeolic
catalectic tetrameter :

The doorkeeper’s feet are seven fathoms long, and
his sandals five hides to the pair—it took ten shoe-
makers to make them; [and his father lived in other
ways an honest life, but claimed to be better born
than Cecrops himself. | 3

1 Demetrius perh. read δέ τε cand, Longus δ᾽ ἔτι ‘and
still’ 5.666 jp. 99]

E ea, we p. 990: weéreppos BLM. ὅδι. 13, ἀμφισβάτεις
(partep.) Him. 282: cf. Luc. 2m, 28 εὐγενέστερον τοῦ Κέκροπος
ἢ Κόδρου

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