The Digital Sappho

Book IX

Texts: Campbell = Voigt; when they differ, it is noted which edition is used.

Campbell, David A. 1982. Greek Lyric, Vol. I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Voigt, Eva-Maria, ed. 1971. Sappho et Alcaeus. Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep.

 

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104A

Meter:

v. 1Dactylic hexameter

– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– –

v. 2  Iamb + pherecratean with a double dactylic expansion (ia | pher^2d)

ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ – ×

Text: Campbell

Source: Demetrius of Phaleron, On Style  141

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104B

Meter: Uncertain

Source: Himerius, Orations 46.8

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105A

Meter: Dactylic hexameter

– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– –

Source: Syrianus on Hermogenes, On Kinds of Style 1.1

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105B

Meter:  Dactylic hexameter

– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– –

Text: 105B Voigt = 105C Campbell, LP

Source: Demetrius of Phaleron, On Style 106

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106

Meter: Dactylic hexameter

– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– ᴗ ᴗ |– –

Source: Demetrius of Phaleron, On Style  146

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107

Meter: Uncertain

Source: Apollonius Dyscolus, Conjunctions 490

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108

Meter: Uncertain

Text: Campbell

Source: Himerius, Orations 9.19

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109

Meter: Uncertain

Source: Homeric Parsings (on Il. 1.528)

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110

Meter: Aeolic dactylic tetrameter catalectic (a.k.a. pherecratean with a dactylic expansion, pher^d)

× × – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – ×

Text: Campbell

Source: Hephaestion, Handbook on Meters 7.6

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111

Meter:

v. 1– – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗpher

v. 2ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗia

v. 3× – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – ×_^pher^d

v. 4ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗia

v. 5Uncertain

v. 6ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗia

v. 7× – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – ×_^pher^d

v. 8ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗia

 

Text: Voigt

Source: Hephaestion, On Poems 7.1

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112

Meter: 3 ½ foot choriambic with iambic close (a.k.a. choriambic bacchic dimeter, cho ba | cho ba)

– ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – × – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ×

Source: Hephaestion, Handbook on Meters 15.26

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113

Meter: Iamb + pherecratean (ia|pher)

ᴗ – ᴗ – | – – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ

Text: Voigt

Source:Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Literary Composition 25

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114

Meter:

v. 1Choriambic bacchic trimeter (3cho ba)

– ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – –

v. 2Uncertain

Source:Demetrius of Phaleron, On Style , 140

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115

Meter: Aeolic dactylic pentameters (pherecratean with a double dactylic expansion, pher^2d)

× × – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – ×

Source: Hephaestion, Handbook on Meters 7.6

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116

Meter: Trochaic hipponactean (tro|hipp)

– ᴗ – ᴗ |– × – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ×

Source: Servius on Vergil, Georgics 1.31

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117

Meter: Perhaps iambic trimeter catalectic (3ia_^)

† – – – – ᴗ † – ᴗ – ᴗ – –

Source: Hephaestion, Handbook on Meters 4.2

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117A

Meter: Uncertain

Source: Hesychius, Lexicon

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117B

Meter:Uncertain

Text: 117B Voigt = Campbell "Sappho or Alcaeus" 24

Source: Marius Plotius Sacerdos, Grammar III.3