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The Bibelot

VOLUME I

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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number V, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 142.

V.  FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO




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LIIIQuoted by Hephaestion as an example of Praxilleian verses, i. e. such as the Sicyonian poetess Praxilla (about B. C. 450) wrote in the metre known as the Ionic a majore trimeter brachycatalectic. Blass thinks that the lines are part of the same poem as that to which the succeeding fragment belongs.



















The moon rose full, and the women stood as though around an altar.



















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