Γέλλως παιδοφιλωτέρα.
Fonder of maids than Gello.
Quoted as a proverb by Zenobius, about 130 A.D.; said of those who die an untimely death, or of those whose indulgence brings ruin on their children. Gello was a maiden who died in youth, whose ghost, the Lesbians said, pursued children and carried them off.
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Μάλα δὴ κεκορημένας
Γόργως.
Of Gorgo full weary.
I am weary of all thy words and soft strange ways.
Swinburne, Anactoria.
Quoted by Choeroboscus, about the end of the sixth century A.D., to show that the Aeolic genitive ended in -ως. Maximus Tyrius mentions this girl Gorgo along with Andromeda (cf. fr. [41]) as beloved by Sappho.