SAPPHO

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Hephaestion ἤιε Ton dactwlies}: And the Aeoiic
dactyvlic pentameter catalectic with a disvilable :
To what, dear bridegroom, may I well liken thee
To a slender sapling do I be wat liken thee.

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Servius on Vergil: Many commentators hold that son-di-
daw is here used for Avstund, as it is by Sappho, who in the
Book entitled Lpithalamies says :
Farewell, bride, and farewell, honoured bride-
groom 1}

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Dionysius On Léterary Composition [on Demosthenes οἱ gainst
Avistecratys 1]: The clause which follows this consists of
two metres put together: “μήτε μικρὸν ὁρῶντα τι καὶ φαῦλον
ἁμάρτημ᾽ ἑτοίμως οὕτως ἐπὶ τούτῳ. Now if we tuke this line
of a wedding-song of Sappho’s:

For never, bridegroom, was there another maiden
such as this;
and after inserting a ‘rest’ join it with the last three feet
and the incomplete final foot of the comic tetrameter—
known as the Aristophanean-—in the following way: οὐ γὰρ
ἣν arépa mais ὦ yauBpe τοαύτα [rest] καὶ σωφροσύνη ᾿νενόμιστο.
we shall find the resulting metre the same as that of * wire
μικρὺν᾽ κιτ.λ.

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Demetrius On Stade: The charm which coines from the
use of figures of speech is obvious and manifold in Sappho:
for instance. from repetition, where a bride says to her
virginity :

1 yauBpos Sone connected by marriage” is used by some
(reek poets to mean bridegroom

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