“Anacreon sings sweetly; Sappho sings sweetly; I hope someone mixes them up with Pindar and pours them out for me.”
ἡδυμελὴς Ἀνακρέων,
ἡδυμελὴς δὲ Σαπφώ
Πινδαρικὸν δέ μοι μέλος
συγκεράσας τις ἐγχέοι.
Tag: Sappho
Aristotle, Rhetorica 1398b
“As Sappho says, death is a great evil and the gods have judged it so: for they do not die”
ἢ ὥσπερ Σαπφώ, ὅτι τὸ ἀποθνῄσκειν κακόν· οἱ θεοὶ
γὰρ οὕτω κεκρίκασιν· ἀπέθνησκον γὰρ ἄν.
Aristotle was a great reader of poetry
Sappho, fragment 50
“The man who is pretty is so only as far as he looks; the man who is good is already beautiful”
ὀ μὲν γὰρ κάλος ὄσσον ἴδην πέλεται <κάλος>,
ὀ δὲ κἄγαθος αὔτικα καὶ κάλος ἔσσεται.
Sappho is from the island of Lesbos, whence the English word Lesbian. In the ancient world, women from Lesbos were known as some of the most beautiful women in the world.