, who fell in Love with
Stratonice
, his Mother-in-law, and (not daring to discover his Passion) pretended to be confined to his Bed by Sickness, tells us, that
Erasistratus
, the Physician, found out the Nature of his Distemper by those Symptoms of Love which he had learnt from
Sappho's
Writings
.
Stratonice