160

Eustathius, commenting on the Iliad, quotes the grammarian Aristophanes [about 260 B.C.] saying that Sappho calls a wind that is as if twisted up and descending, a cyclone, ἄνεμον κατάρη, a wind rushing from above.

Nauck would restore the epithet to verse 2 of fr. [42].

161

Choeroboscus says:—

'Sappho makes the accusative of κίνδυνος danger κίνδυν.'

Another writer, in the Codex Marc., says:—

'Sappho makes the accusative κίνδυνα.'

162

Joannes Alexandrinus, about the seventh century A.D., says:—