[158.] V. 246. I give a literal translation and Greek texts of all epigrams which mention Sappho in Miller-Robinson, Songs of Sappho.
[159.] Cf. A. J. P., XXXVIII. 66 (1917).
[160.] Photius only cites the selections made by Sopater the Sophist, among which in his second book he included some quotations from Sappho’s eighth book.
[161.] Vita dell’ Imperatore Alessio o Alesseide, XV.
[162.] IV. 25.
[163.] His comment on Martial, VII. 67 is “Tribadem autem fuisse carmen indicat quod extat.”
[164.] There is an interesting item in Natales Comes, Mythologiae sive explicationes fabularum, Venice, 1551, Book V, c. XVI, p. 286, “Scriptum reliquit Sappho, Adonim mortuum fuisse a Venere inter lactucas depositum.” According to Athenaeus 69 d, Cratinus had Aphrodite conceal Phaon among the “fair wild-lettuces.”
[165.] In my library I have a copy dated 1696 of Anne Le Fèvre, Les Poësies d’Anacréon et de Sapho. This, however, is a second edition and the first was in 1681.
[166.] Welcker, Kleine Schriften: II, pp. 80 ff., Sappho von einem herrschenden Vorurteil befreit. Goethe occupied himself much with this article. For references in Goethe to Sappho cf. W. J. Keller, Goethe’s Estimate of the Greek and Latin Writers, Madison, Wis., 1916, p. 51.