ABSTRACT
It is supposed that Sappho drew upon Folk Songs for appropriate metre and phrasing and expressions in her bridal ditties.
118 Bergk, 84 ; Edm. 129. Trochaic, App. 35 n, 36.
MS. Sevré. Heph. 106 calls the metre two ithyphallics. Hither again, O Muses come, Leaving on high your golden home !
