ABSTRACT

Athenaeus : Do you think that delicate living without virtue brings any comfort ? Why, Sappho, who was a woman if ever there was one, and a poetess, nevertheless shrank from divorcing delicacy of life from honour, for she fiiakes it clear to all that for her the joy of life contained in itself that which was splendid and that which was honourable ; and these are concomitants of virtue.