The lover's refuge, and the Lesbian's grave.

Greek and Asiatic wines, especially the Chian and Lesbian, were in great demand at Rome.

Of the two Odes, which are all, excepting some few fragments, that remain to us of the Lesbian poetess, he has introduced Translations into his drama.

gynecaeum^. estrogen, oestrogen. consanguinity &c 166 [Female relatives], paternity &c 11. lesbian, dyke [Slang].

homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual.

As to Sappho's Mitylene, while I am convinced that the Lesbian capital held some plain men of middle stature and slow conversational powers, the addition of myself to their number, though clad in the majestic folds of the himation and without cravat, would hardly have made a sensation among the accomplished fair ones who were so precise in adjusting their own drapery about their delicate ankles.

Cephalus for the love of Protela, Degonetus' daughter, leaped down here, that Lesbian Sappho for Phaon, on whom she miserably doted.

Sappho, the Lesbian, in Love with Phaon, arrived at the Temple of Apollo, habited like a Bride in Garments as white as Snow.

I have prepared a sacrifice of winethe Lesbian wine from fairy Mityleneto mingle with your waters till you are drunken and go singing to the sea from the Abyssinian hills.

ERRIMA, Greek maiden chidden by her mother for dreaming of Sappho, and Lesbian dances and Delphian lyre, and commanded to "rend thy scrolls and keep thee to thy spinning.

" "Bitter-sweet," "giver of pain," "the weaver of fictions," are some expressions of Sappho's preserved by Maximus Tyrius; and Libanius, the rhetorician, refers to Sappho, the Lesbian, as praying "that night might be doubled for her."

Now I have not the slightest desire to discuss the moral character of Sappho or the vices of her Lesbian countrywomen.

Sappho, the Lesbian, in Love with Phaon, arrived at the Temple of Apollo, habited like a Bride in Garments as white as Snow.

And yet what could they do for Lycidas, who had no power to shield Orpheus himself, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.

Thomas Moore in his version of the ode gives in a foot-note the following translation of a fragment of the Lesbian poetess.

The Cyprian came to thy cradle, When thou wast little and small, And said to the nurse who rocked thee "Fear not thou for the child: "She shall be kindly favoured, 5 And fair and fashioned well, As befits the Lesbian maidens And those who are fated to love.

LI Is the day long, O Lesbian maiden, And the night endless In thy lone chamber In Mitylene?

Grillparzer was not inspired by the meagre tradition of the Lesbian poetess, nor yet by anything more than the example of Goethe; he took only the outline of the story of Sappho and Phaon; his play is almost to be called a romantic love story, and the influence strongest upon him in the writing of it was that of Wieland.