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Maximus Tyrius says:—
'Socrates blames Xanthippe for lamenting his death, as Sappho blames her daughter—
Οὐ γὰρ θέμις ἐν μουσοπόλων οἰκίᾳ θρήνον εἶναι· οὐκ ἄμμι πρέπει τάδε.
For lamentation may not be in a poet's house: such things befit not us.'
In the home of the Muses 'tis bootless to mourn.
Frederick Tennyson.
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Aristotle, in his Rhetoric, ii. 23, writes:—
ἢ ὥσπερ Σαπφώ, ὅτι το ἀποθνήσκειν κακόν· οἱ θεοὶ γὰρ οὕτω κεκρίκασιν· ἀπέθνησκον γὰρ ἄν.