Power necessary for thrashing and grinding corn, working sugar mills, spinning cotton, sawing timber, grossing cotton, blowing furnaces, driving piles, and dredging earth out of rivers.

Jadis elle étoit entourée de cloîtres, et avoit, dit-on, trois milles de circuit; aujourd'hui elle est moins étendue, et n'a plus que trois cloîtres, qui tous trois sont pavés et revêtus en larges carreaux de marbre blanc, et ornés de grosses colonnes de diverses couleurs.

The story is further discredited by the fact that we find no mention of it in Greek literature even among those Attic comedians who would have clutched at it so eagerly and given it so gross a turntill a date more than two hundred years after Sappho's death.

He is of late somewhat less offensive; for one of his debtors, after gentle expostulations, by which he was only irritated to grosser outrage, seized him by the sleeve, led him trembling into the court-yard, and closed the door upon him in a stormy night.

The story is further discredited by the fact that we find no mention of it in Greek literature even among those Attic comedians who would have clutched at it so eagerly and given it so gross a turntill a date more than two hundred years after Sappho's death.