; and if he compares this Translation with the Original, will find that the three first Stanzas are rendred almost Word for Word, and not only with the same Elegance, but with the same short Turn of Expression which is so remarkable in the
Greek
, and so peculiar to the
Sapphick
Ode. I cannot imagine for what Reason Madam
Dacier
has told us, that this Ode of
Sappho
is preserved entire in
Longinus