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THE POEMS OF SAPPHO
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Ἄνθε᾽ ἀμέργουσαν παῖδ᾽ ἄγαν ἀπαλάν.
A most tender maiden gathering flowers.
Quoted by Athenaeus.
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Πόλυ πάκτιδος ἀδυμελεστέρα, χρύσω χρυσοτέρα.
Than the lyre, far sweeter in tone, than gold, more golden.
Far sweeter than the throbbing lyre in sound,
A voice more golden than gold, new found.
Quoted by Demetrius to show the poetical value of hyperbolical phrase.
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Maximus Tyrius says that Socrates calls Love the wizard, while Sappho uses the term μυθοπλόκος, “fiction weaving.”
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Aristides quotes Sappho as saying τὸ γάνος . . . οὐ διαφθεῖρον τὰς ὄψεις, “the brightness . . . not destroying the sight.”
