SAPPHO
188

Scholiast on /dud ἰἀϊδρεῦ tunknewing. ignoront’ 1: The
venitive to the nominative &6pcs ought to be ἀΐδρεος and the
dative ἀΐδρει τ for it ought not to have a δ in it, since it 1s
net a derivative with a long vowel in the penultimate
evllablo, but ought to be declined like ἔχις, πέσις, and ders:
and therefore the form πολυΐδριδι,

learned,

weed hy Sappho is wrong: unless indeed this was declined

as it was in Attic, for Sophocles used the accusative ἴδριδα
aml Vhrynichus the nominative plural pies.

1891

Scholiast on Theoeritus [*-my skin went often the colour
of hoxwood]: ‘Green’ or ‘yellow’: θάψος is a kind of
wood which is called, according to Sappho,

scytharium-wood ;

it is used for dyeing ; some call it Nevthian-wood,

190
Orion Btemnudogiene +... asin Sappho χελύρη for χελώνη
tortoise or
lyre.

19]

Pollux Teewdndury: Mid-bossel cups and bath-stopper cups
get their names from their shape, but the gold-bossed from
the substance of which they are made, like Sappho’s

9

. gold-knuckle cups . . 7

let. Phot. @ades and another schel. en this passage. who

ascribe the term ‘Seyvthian-wood’ to 8, 2 7, δι ἃ vold cup
with the bottom round like one end of a ‘knuckle-bone’
or die