SAPPHO

Maidenhead, maidenhead, whither away ἢ
and it replies in the same figure :
Where I must stay, bride, where 1 must stay.

For there is more charm in it put thus than if the figure
were not employed and it were said but once. Now repe-
tition would seem to have been invented more with a view
to an effect of energy or force! but Sappho employs even
what is most forceful in a charming way.

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Demetrius On Style: And that is why when Sappho sings
of beauty her words are full of beauty and sweetness, andl
the same when she sings of love and springtime and the
halevon, and the pattern of her poetry is inwoven with every
beautiful word there is, some of them made by herself.

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Strabo Geography: Canae ix a little town of the Loerians
of Cynus opposite the southernmost Cape of Leshos, situated
in Canaea, a district which extends as far as the islands of
Arainusae and the cape which lies near them. This cape is
eailed by some writers Aiga ‘the goat after the animal;
but the second sylable onght rather to be made long, Aisi,
like ἀκτά and ἀρχά: for that is the name of the whole
mountain which is now called Cane or Canae;. . . later the
aetual promontory scems to have been known as Aig’, as
Sappho gives it, and eventually as Cane or Canae.

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Schohast on Apollonius of Rhodes atruonauties {'So0 T am
not the only visitant of the Latmian cave]: . .. The love
of the Moon-goddess is told of by Sappho, and by Nicander
in the 2nd Book of the Europe τ and it is said that the Moon
comes down to Endymion in this cave.

1 οἵ, Rhys Roberts «7 lo. * cf. Steph. Byz. arya

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