144
Servius, commenting on Vergil, Aeneid, vi. 21, says:—
'Some would have it believed that Theseus rescued along with himself seven boys and seven maidens, as Plato says in his Phaedo, and Sappho in her lyrics, and Bacchylides in his dithyrambics, and Euripides in his Hercules.'
No such passage from Sappho has been preserved.
145
Servius, commenting on Vergil, Eclog., vi. 42, says:—
'Prometheus, son of Iapĕtus and Clymĕne, after he had created man, is said to have ascended to heaven by help of Minerva, and having applied a small torch [or perhaps 'wand'] to the sun's wheel, he stole fire and showed it to men. The Gods being angered hereby sent two evils upon the earth, fevers and disease [the text is here obviously corrupt; it ought to be 'women and disease' or 'fevers and women'], as Sappho and Hesiod tell.'
146
Philostratus says:—
'Sappho loves the Rose, and always crowns it with some praise, likening beautiful maidens to it.'