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  Sappho   of Eresos (Lesbos) - Greek poetess, early 6th century B.C.
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[Longin]:Subl_10   soldering of these selected. Sappho, for instance, never fails
Aelian:Fr_187   nephew sang some song of Sappho at a drinking party, took
AnthPal_7.16   PINYTUS & { Ph 1 } & On Sappho The tomb holds the bones
AnthPal_7.17   set without memory of lyric Sappho. * & i.e. books of
AnthPal_7.718   dances which kindled (?) Sappho, the flower of the Graces,
AnthPal_9.184   you, Aeolian graces of Sappho ; pen of Anacreon, and you
AnthPal_9.189   goddess ; and for you Sappho, holding her golden lyre,
AnthPal_9.190   Muses. As much as Sappho excels Erinna in lyrics, so much
AnthPal_9.506   arelessly ! Look at the tenth, Sappho from Lesbos. [507]
AnthPal_9.571   Aeolian . . . But Sappho was not the ninth among men, but
AntipSid_7.14   7.14] & { G-P 11 } & On Sappho O Aeolian land, you cover
AntipSid_9.66   she heard honey-voiced Sappho, wondering if men possess
AntipThes_7.15   On the Same My name is Sappho, and I excelled all women
AntipThes_9.26   nyte, the female Homer ; Sappho, glory of the Lesbian wome
Athen_2.39   Nectar they eat at will. And Sappho says—. & The goblets
Athen_10.425   cupbearer; as also does Sappho, who says- & And with ambr
Athen_11.460   oinopotazōn   So Sappho, in the second
Athen_11.463     Therefore, as the fair Sappho also says : 'Come, goddess
Athen_11.475   the so-called distaff."   Sappho mentions the karchesia (as
Athen_12.554   ering flowers. And Sappho says- 'I saw a lovely maiden gat
Athen_13.564   unclosed lids. And Sappho says to a man who was admired
Athen_13.571   0;ραι; as Sappho does, where she says- &
Athen_13.572   that description in his Sappho, where he says- & For when
Athen_13.596-599 *   brother of the lovely Sappho, when he went to Naucratis
Athen_13.605   all the love-songs & Of Sappho, Meletus, Cleomenes, and
Athen_14.635   the magadis, was invented by Sappho. And Aristoxenus say
Athen_14.639   least from the compositions of Sappho and Anacreon. Moreov
Athen_15.674   And Sappho says -
Athen_15.687   desirable in it? But even Sappho, a thorough woman, and a
Athen_15.690   But Sappho mentions the royal and the
Cic:Verr_2.4.126   [126] Your theft of the Sappho in the town-hall, of course,
Cic:Verr_2.4.127   that the theft of this Sappho left behind it. Itself an
Demetr:Eloc_106   k-splendid is shed. & & & & & (Sappho, Fragm. 94, Bergk)
Demetr:Eloc_127   Kaibel C. G. F.). Sappho's words 'more golden than all
Demetr:Eloc_132   love-stories, or the poetry of Sappho generally. Such them
Demetr:Eloc_140   est, and abound most of all in Sappho. An instance in poin
Demetr:Eloc_141   & Sometimes also Sappho makes graceful use of the figure
Demetr:Eloc_146   of imagery. Thus Sappho says of the man that stands out
Demetr:Eloc_148   [148] & There is a peculiarly Sapphic grace due to recant
Demetr:Eloc_162   blue'; and the lines of Sappho Far sweeter-singing than
Demetr:Eloc_166   ape. [166] & When Sappho celebrates the charms of beauty,
DioscEpigr_7.407   & { G-P 18 } & Sappho, sweet pillow for the loves of
Meleager_4.1   and many of Moero, of Sappho few flowers, but they are
Phld:Epigr_5.132   and she does not sing Sappho, yet Perseus was in love
Phylarch_62   ς is first mentioned by Sappho. [Didymus] says that
Plin:HN_35.141   a Harpist Girl, Leon a Sappho, Nearchus Aphrodite among the Graces


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