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The Scholiast quotes this to show that Sappho says the same thing of doves as Pindar (Pyth. 1–10) says of the eagle of Zeus.

Another reading is, “light,” for , “moist or chill.” The sense would then be, “the spirit within them became light and they relaxed their wings in rest.”

From the “Etymologicum Magnum” to show the Aeolic use of in place of. Bergk conjectures for, “winds.” The fragment is tantalizingly incomplete, as so many others are, and the reading of one or two words in it is not certain.