SAPPHO

e.g. O beauteous one, Ὁ lovely one, thine it is
to sport with the rose-ankled Graces and
,  Aphredite the golden...

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Choricius Lpithalwmy of Zachery: And so, to give you
pleasure once again, I will adorn the bride with a Sapphic
song : 5
Thy form, O bride, is all delight; thy eyes are of
a gentle me , ; thy fair face is overspr ead with love;
Aphrodite hath done thee exceeding honour.

169 +

Apollonius Conjunetions: We must now take the con-
junctions expressing hesitation. ἄρα: this conjunction takes
the form ἦρα in every dialect except the Koine or Common,
and Attic ;

Can it be that I still long for my virginity?
Sappho.
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Hephaestion Zunrdimok [on ‘rests’ in metre]: And metres
are called catalectic when their last foot is shortened, as in the
iambic:

Farewell the bride, farewell the bridegroom ! *
where the last syllable stands insteal of a whole iambus.

1 ef. Sch. Dion. Thr. Grea. Gr. 3. 290 Schneid. Ξ or
* Hail to the bride,’ etc.