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Sappho FR. III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford

Extract

Dr. G. S. Kirk has suggested (C.Q. N.S. xiii [1963], 51–52) that the last line of this fragment represents the bridegroom as being ‘fantastically ithyphallic’. This seems quite likely; but it would be more so if a parallel for the unusual use of the expression ‘a great man’ that it involves could be adduced.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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