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The Scholiast on Hesiod, Op. et D., 74, says that Sappho calls Persuasion, Ἀφροδιτης θυγατέρα.
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Athenaeus mentions βάρωμος and σάρβιτος, two stringed instruments in use in the time of Sappho. Their exact character is not known. He also gives the form βάρμος for the name of the former instrument.
A few single words or short phrases attributed to Sappho have been preserved here and there by various writers. Some examples may be given, as they have a certain interest.
Eustathius speaks of a “vagabond friendship, as Sappho would say,” καλὸν δημόσιον—“a public good.”
The “Lexicon Sequerianum” defines Ἄκακος as meaning “without experience of ill,” and says “so Sappho uses the word.”
The “Etymologicum Magnum” defines Ἀμαμαξύς as a vine trained on poles, and says that Sappho makes the plural ἀμαμάξυδες, The same work mentions Sappho’s use of the form αὔως for ἤως, “the dawn.”
