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The Scholiast on Hesiod, Op. et D., 74, says that Sappho calls Persuasion,.

Athenaeus mentions and, two stringed instruments in use in the time of Sappho. Their exact character is not known. He also gives the form for the name of the former instrument.

A few single words or short phrases attributed to Sappho have been preserved here and there by various writers. Some examples may be given, as they have a certain interest.

Eustathius speaks of a “vagabond friendship, as Sappho would say,” —“a public good.”

The “Lexicon Sequerianum” defines as meaning “without experience of ill,” and says “so Sappho uses the word.”

The “Etymologicum Magnum” defines as a vine trained on poles, and says that Sappho makes the plural, The same work mentions Sappho’s use of the form  for , “the dawn.”