But the Argument prefixed to Theocritus, Idyl xiii., says:—
'Sappho called Love the child of Aphrodite and Heaven.'
And Pausanias, about 180 A.D., says:—
'On Love Sappho the Lesbian sang many things which do not agree with one another.' Cf. fr. [74].
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Himerius says:—
'Thou art, I think, an evening-star, of all stars the fairest: this is Sappho's song to Hesperus.' And again: 'Now thou didst appear like that fairest of all stars; for the Athenians call thee Hesperus.'
Bergk thinks Sappho's line ran thus:—
Ἀστέρων πάντων ὁ κάλιστος ...
Of all stars the fairest.