Sappho and her influence

by David M. Robinson

[19.] Anth. Pal., IX. 189. Cf. A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel, Oxford, 1922, p. 195. The ending is “you shall fain Deem that Calliope doth hymn the strain.”

[20.] Anth. Pal., IX. 571.

[21.] XXXV. 16.

[22.] Cf. also Epigr. LXX, Jacobs, II, p. 25; Plut., Amat., XII, p. 42.

[23.] P. 186 (1921).

[24.] 280, pp. 817-818. Cf. also Posthumous Essays in Sat. Rev., Feb. 21, 1914.

[25.] Professor Scribner in The Classical Weekly XV, 1921, p. 78, says “there still is room for a work giving a complete critical treatment of Sappho’s influence on ancient and modern literature down to our own time.”

[26.] Athenaeus, 599 c; Oxyr. Pap., XV. 1800.

[27.] Strabo, 618; Athenaeus, 85 c.

[28.] Cf. Herodotus, II. 135; Schol. Plato, Phaedrus, 235 c; Ox. Pap., XV. 1800. The papyrus gives Scamandrus, which is otherwise known as a good Lesbian name, as well as Scamandronymus. Scamandrus like Suidas’ Scamon is an abbreviation or Kosenamen.