[45] Dioscorides in _Anth. Pal._, VII. 407 has Eresus; and coins and Suidas give both towns. Cf. Wilamowitz, _Sappho und Simonides_, 23; Her. II. 135 and references in Jacoby, _Das Marmor Parium_, 1904, p. 101. Many sources call Sappho a Mytilenaean, Schol. to Pindar (E. p. 144); Schol. Plato, _Phaedrus_, 235 c; Arist., _Rhet._, 1398 b; _Anth. Pal._, VII. 17. Some scholars assume that there were two Sapphos, but the two traditions can easily be reconciled by supposing that Sappho belonged to both cities, born at Eresus but later living at Mytilene. Edmonds thinks that Strabo would have mentioned Sappho when he is speaking of Eresus (618), had he believed her to have been born there, but Strabo omits many famous writers. The tradition of two Sapphos is found also in Aelian, _Historical Miscellanies_, XII. 19 and in Suidas. Cf. the novel _Beulah_ by Augusta Evans, pp. 216-218: “Do you think that Sappho’s frenzy was established by the Leucadian leap? You confound the poetess with a Sappho, who lived later, and threw herself into the sea from the promontory of Leucate. Doubtless she too had ‘poetic idiosyncrasies,’ but her spotless life, and I believe natural death, afford no indication of an unsound intellect.” [46] _Studies of the Greek Poets_, vol. I., pp. 307 ff. (American ed.) [47] I. 9. [48] Cf. _The Poet Loves of Sappho_ from the third book of _A Catalogue of Things Relating to Love_, an elegiac poem by Hermesianax, translated by J. Bailey. [49] Athenaeus, 450 e. [50] _Class. Phil._, XIII. 348 (1918). [51] XVIII. 9. [52] Edmonds, 82, p. 240. [53] _Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, XV, 1922, 1800. Also now published in Miller-Robinson, _The Songs of Sappho_. [54] Lunák, _Quaestiones Sapphicae_, Kazan, 1888. [55] Lucy Milburn, p. 21, makes Sappho say, “When Cleïs, I called her for my mother, was two years old, I found myself a widow.” But we have no such evidence, how old Cleïs was when her father died. Miss Milburn (Letter XIX) is also quite wrong in translating “I would rather have my little daughter know her own worth than to bequeath to her all the treasures of Lydia, were they mine.” [56] I. 30. [57] Edmonds, 116 reads Εἴρηνα (peace) for Ἔραννα so that it is doubtful if Erinna, the poetess who wrote poems worthy of Homer before her early death at the age of nineteen, is really meant by Sappho. Most scholars now date her long after Sappho’s time, some even as late as 350 B.C. [58] Cf. _Jahrbuch_, XXV. 150 (1910). [59] _A. J. P._, XXXIV. 106 (1913). [60] _Anth. Pal._, XVI. 310. [61] XVIII. [62] _Odes_, I. 1. 36. [63] Cf. _Anth. Pal._, VII. 14 and 17 for epigrams about Sappho’s grave. Cf. Edmonds, 42 and 99. Tucker translates: As friends we’ll part: Win thee a younger bride: Too old, I lack the heart To keep thee at my side.