Produced by Keith Edkins, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). ā ă etc. represent vowels with macrons or breves respectively. In the representations of metre ≈ represents a syllable whose weight is undetermined (breve and macron in the printed work). * * * * * ΣΑΠΦΩ [Illustration] L. Alma Tadema J. Cother Webb pinxt. fec. SAPPHO MEMOIR, TEXT, SELECTED RENDERINGS, AND A LITERAL TRANSLATION BY HENRY THORNTON WHARTON M.A. OXON LONDON: JOHN LANE · THE BODLEY HEAD · NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY · 1908 Πάντα καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς. _First Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Pp._ xii+190. _One Illustration. David Stott._ 1885. _Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Pp._ xvi+213. _Two Illustrations, David Stott._ 1887. _Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Pp._ xx+217. _Three Illustrations, John Lane._ 1895. _Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Pp._ xx+222. _Three Illustrations and Memoir of Mr. Wharton._ _John Lane._ 1898. _Fifth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Pp._ xxxii+217. _Three Illustrations and Memoir of Mr. Wharton._ _John Lane._ 1908. Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street, London PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION I would fain have enriched this edition of my _Sappho_ with some new words of the poetess, if only even to the slight extent which I reached in 1887; but, to the world's sorrow, that pleasure has been denied me. Still, we need not yet give up all hope, after the unexpected discovery of the unknown _Mimiambi_ of Herondas, on a papyrus-roll used to stuff an Egyptian mummy-case, so few years ago (cf. _The Academy_, Oct. 11, 1890). Neverthless, I can now present to the lovers of Sappho a good deal more than was heretofore in my power; in a new form, it is true, but with the same beautiful Greek type. And with this third edition I am enabled to give a reproduction, in photogravure, of the charming picture of Mitylene by the late Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., for which I am primarily indebted to Dr. R. Garnett, of the British Museum.