J. A. Symonds, 1883.
Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things.
Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, 1886.
From the Etymologicum Magnum, where it is adduced to show the meaning of αὔως, 'dawn.' The fragment occurs also in Demetrius, as an example of Sappho's grace. One cannot but believe that Catullus had in his mind some such hymeneal ode of Sappho's as that in which this fragment must have occurred when he wrote his Vesper adest, juvenes, consurgite: Vesper Olympo, etc. (lxii.), part of which was imitated in the colloquy between Opinion and Truth in Ben Jonson's The Barriers.
96
Ἀϊπάρθενος ἔσσομαι.
I shall be ever maiden.
From a Parisian MS. edited by Cramer, adduced to show the Aeolic form of ἀεί, 'ever.'
97
Δώσομεν, ησι πάτηρ.