[76] _Iliad_, X. 90-95. Cf. also _Od._, XVII. 518-521. For Homer’s influence on Sappho cf. Smyth, p. 230; H. L. Ebeling, in _The Classical Weekly_, XVI. 195 ff. (1923). [77] III. 152-158. [78] Edmonds, pp. 186-7, makes the ingenious but very uncertain suggestion that in line 7 a proper noun, Brocheo or Brochea, corresponding to Catullus’ Lesbia, should be read and now translates: “When I look on you, Brocheo, my speech comes short or fails me quite.” Formerly he thought that the poem was sent by the banished Sappho at the age of eighteen to some beloved girl friend soon after her arrival in Sicily in 596 B.C., but Sappho was older than eighteen in 596, and Edmonds now makes an entirely different emendation of the last line, “but now that I am poor, I must fain be content ...” meaning “beggars can’t be choosers.” But the reading is uncertain and I do not believe that Sappho was poor, nor do I agree with Miss Patrick that the words do not describe love at all. [79] For such head-cloths cf. the Latin word _struppus_ and the festival at Falerii, called _struppearia_, Dion. Hal., XI. 39 and Poulsen, _Etruscan Tomb Paintings_, p. 23. Edmonds’ new reading is very uncertain; for his previous reading and poetical version cf. _Sappho in the Added Light of the New Fragments_, p. 28. [80] I keep Bergk’s reading, “Foolish woman, pride not thyself on a ring.” Edmonds changes the text and translates, “But come, be not so proud of a ring.” [81] Cf. Poulsen, in _Jahrbuch_, XXI. 209 ff. (1906); _Die Bronzen von Olympia_, IV., pl. VII. 74. [82] There are many other poetical versions by Merivale, Symonds, F. Tennyson, Tucker, Cox, Edmonds, etc. For an absurd interpretation _Sappho in the Rain_, cf. _Wiener Studien_, XXXVIII. 176 ff. (1916). [83] Poetical translations by Merivale, Arnold, Appleton, F. Tennyson, Symonds, Edmonds, Miller, Percy Mackaye, etc. [84] _Sappho in the Added Light of the New Fragments_, p. 25, but in _Lyra Graeca_, I, p. 253, he changes his previous emendation and reads a text which I consider very uncertain, “and pours down a sweet shrill song from beneath his wings, when the Sun-god illumines the earth with his downshed flame outspread.” [85] _Praec. Con._, 48; _Qu. Conv._, III. 1. 2. [86] _Flor._, IV. 12. [87] For Swinburne’s expansion cf. p. 210; cf. also Percy Mackaye in _Sappho and Phaon_. Bliss Carman has evolved the following from Sappho’s one line: