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Rh Quoted by Hephaestion and presumed to be written by Sappho from a passage in Pausanias.

The reverberating beat of the repetitions of the letter is very remarkable.

Quoted by Marius Plotius about A.D. 600. It appears to be the refrain of an ode.

Quoted by Pollux about A.D. 180 to illustrate Sappho’s use of the word, which she is said to have been the first to use.

The Idyll on a Distaff by Theocritus, according to the argument before it, was written in the metre of this fragment. Philostratus, about A.D. 220, refers to this as indicating Sappho’s love for the rose.