When she pours her silvery plenilunar
Light on the orbed earth.
J. A. Symonds, 1883.
'As the stars draw back their shining faces when they surround the fair moon in her silver fulness.' F. T. Palgrave.
Quoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica, late in the twelfth century, to illustrate the simile in the Iliad, viii. 551:—
As when in heaven the stars about the moon
Look beautiful.
Tennyson.
Julian, about 350 A.D., says Sappho applied the epithet silver to the moon; wherefore Blomfield suggested its position here.
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