With lightsome footsteps treading
The soft and grassy ground.
Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre, vv. 1 and 2 in one place and v. 3 in another; Bergk says Santen first joined them.
55
Ἄβρα δηὖτε παχήᾳ σπόλᾳ ἀλλόμαν.
Then delicately in thick robe I sprang.
From Herodian, as an illustration of the Aeolic dialect. Bergk attributes this to Sappho, but Cramer and others think that Alcaeus wrote the line.
56
Φαῖσι δή ποτα Λήδαν ὐακινθίνων
[ὐπ' ἀνθέων] πεπυκαδμένον