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Quoted by Athenaeus.

Far sweeter than the throbbing lyre in sound,

A voice more golden than gold, new found.

Quoted by Demetrius to show the poetical value of hyperbolical phrase.

Maximus Tyrius says that Socrates calls Love the wizard, while Sappho uses the term, “fiction weaving.”

Aristides quotes Sappho as saying , “the brightness  not destroying the sight.”