since Athenaeus quotes fr. [112] after fr. [56]. It is uncertain what flower the Greeks meant by 'hyacinth'; it probably had nothing in common with our hyacinth, and it seems to have comprised several flowers, especially the iris, gladiolus, and larkspur.
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Ὀφθάλμοις δὲ μέλαις νύκτος ἄωρος.
And dark-eyed Sleep, child of Night.
From the Etymologicum Magnum, to show that the first letter of ἄωρος = ὦρος, 'sleep,' was redundant.
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Χρυσοφάη θεράπαιναν Ἀφροδίτας.
Aphrodite's handmaid bright as gold.
Philodemus, about 60 B.C., in a MS. discovered at Herculaneum, says that Sappho thus addresses Πειθώ, Persuasion. The MS. is, however, defective, and Gomperz, the editor, thinks from the context that Hecate is here referred to. Cf. frr. [132], [125]. (Bergk formerly numbered this fr. 141.)