ABSTRACT

Heph. 36, calls this metre Praxillean Ionic Trimeter brachycatalectic.

Full rose the moon upon the maiden band, And, as they round the altar took their stand . . .

Logaoedics (Greater Asclepiad), App. 26. Clearchus (circa 300 B.C.) apud Athenaeum, xii, 554 :

Hoffm. Clearchus : For, indeed, it is natural that those who

think themselves beautiful and in their bloom should gather flowers, and Sappho says

A maid full tender did I see, Picking the wild flowers on the lea.