Sappho
cited 3 times by 3 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Sappho the figure
The library holds nothing under this name. Three of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
1 extended 1 endorsed
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3 citations · from 3 works-
Conjugalia Praecepta Plutarch 1 extended 1 citation
Sappho is named directly as the author of the quoted line, which the essay explicitly extends and elevates in its final exhortation to Eurydice.
Dead thou shalt lie forgotten in thy tomb, Since not for thee Pierian roses bloom, why may it not be much more lawful for thee to boast those great perfections that give thee a greater privilege, not only to gather the flowers, but to reap the fruits themselves, which the Muses bestow upon the lovers and real owners of learning and philosophy?
conjugalia praecepta ¶ -
Demetrius Plutarch 1 citation
The passage explicitly invokes Sappho's poetry as the recognized authority describing the physical symptoms of love that Antiochus exhibits.
but whenever Stratonicé came to see him, as she often did, either alone, or with Seleucus, lo, those tell-tale signs of which Sappho sings were all there in him,—stammering speech, fiery flushes, darkened vision, sudden sweats, irregular palpitations of the heart, and finally, as his soul was taken by storm, helplessness, stupor, and pallor.
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Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation
Sappho's verse is directly quoted and applied approvingly as the fitting description of the young philosopher's passion.
so a young scholar, if he be once entered in the mysteries and have tasted the sweets of philosophy, cannot possibly suppress the passion and concern for it;
ch. 1 ¶
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