SAPPHO
183

Scholiast on the Z/iae [ἐπισχοίης πόδας ‘mightest set thy
feet upon 7: Resembling in type the forms ἰοίην +1 might
go’ and ἀγαγοίην,

I might lead,
in Sappho. . .. the word ἐπισχυίης was rightly accented
paroxytone.
184

Choeroboseus On the Canons of Theodosius [on nouns in
τυν7]: κίνδυν "λησεν, genitive κίνδυνος, accusative κίνδυνα ;
Sappho thus declined the noun κίνδυνος ; Alcaeus used the
dative κίνδυνι.

185

John of Alexandria: The acute accent falls on the last
svllable or on the penultimate or on the antepenultimate.
but not further hack; for | do not count the form Mideta,

Medea,

which is found in Sappho, because she has separated the
vowels of the diphthong ci.

186

Cramer Tacdite (Geford): And the genitive plural of
Μοῦσα is Mwodwy in Laconian, and Μοισάων,

of the Muses,
in Sappho.

187
Phrynichus The Atticist: nitron,
soda:

this werd would be pronounced by an Aeolian, as Sappho
writes it, with ana, but by an Athenian with an /.

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