SAPPHO

Demetrius Ua Stydé: Very different is the style in which
she (Sappho) mocks the boorish? bridegroom and the keeper
of the weelding-door. It is quite commonplace, and the words
are betver suited to prose than to poetry. Indeed these
peems of hers can be better spoken than sung, and would
net be fitting for the dance or the lyre, unless for a sort of
speaking-dance.”

Synesius Letters: The name which is wronged by the ill-
behaviowr (of a certain bride at her uncle’s funeral) is that
ot Harmonius, Master Doorkecper’s father, who, as Sappho
would say, in other respects lived a decent and honest life,
but claimed to be better born than Cecrops himself.

155, 156
Hephaestion Zandtook of Metre [on ‘unconnectable’ metres]:

And the same poetess (Sappho) uses the choriambic of three
feet and a half with the iambic close:

Happy bridegroom, the marriage is accomplished
as you prayed it should be, and the maiden you
prayed for is yours;
and in some places she lets a word overlap into the second
part of the line:

and soft and gentle is shed over her delightsome
face... .?

157

Himerius Lyithalemuy of Severus: Come then, let us take
this discourse of outs into the chamber aud introduce it to
the beauty of the bride. *O beauteous one, etc. . . . (for
thou deservest the praise of the Lesbian poetess), thine it
is, etc.’ # .

due to the licence rexularly allowed in the Ist foot (ef. Heph.
44: aceording to the Scholiast Thyrdrus (' Doorkeeper’)
Was the name of a brother of the deceased (who was son of
Syn.'s friend ἘΠ. and unele of the bride: 3 probably from
the same poem: the subject of the verb is probably ‘love’
ὁ metre Catull. 61

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