Καί σαγωεῦσαν φιλότητα τις σ ̓, ὦ Σαπφοί, ἀδικά; Καὶ τῶν αἱ φεύγει, ταχέως διώξει Ελθέ μοι καὶ νεῶ, χαλεπῶν ἢ λῦσον Σύμμαχο ἔσο. ΩΔΗ Whom engage in artful Toils? Tho' thy Gifts and Thee he flight, Αίνεται μοι κενα ἴσω. θεοῖσιν Καὶ γελώσας ἱμερόεν τό μοι ταν Ὡς ἴδον σε, βρόγχον ἐμοι 28 οὐδᾶς Αλλά This Ode was preferv'd by Longinus in his Treatise on the Sublime, where the Reader may be agreeably entertain'd with the Remarks of that great Critick. VE R. 7 & 8. For in fpeechles Raptures toft, Whilft Igaz'd, my Voice was loft.] Mr. Le Fevre thinks the Original of these two Lines ought to be read, Ως ἴδον σ', ὡς βρόγχον ἐμοὶ τὸ αὐδᾶς Οὐδὲν ἐθ ̓ ἥκαι. ANODE. *On a YOUNG MAID whom she lov'd. H APPY as a God is he, That fond Youth, who plac'd by thee, Hears and fees thee fweetly gay, Talk and smile his Soul away. That it was alarm'd my Breaft, And depriv'd my Heart of Reft. For in fpeechlefs Raptures toft, Whilft I gaz'd, my Voice was loft. The Simul enim te vidi, fimul nihil vocis pervenit ad fauces meas. The fame Gentleman obferves a beautiful Artifice in the frequent Repetition of the P rticle in the eight last Verses, as it finely expreffes that Lofs of Breath and fainting away which the Poetefs describes. Mr. Addifon, in his Spectator upon this Ode, relates the following remarkable Circumftance from Plutarch. "That Author (fays he) in the famous Story of An "tiocbus, ̓Αλλὰ καμμι γλῶσ ̓ ἔαγ ̓, ἂν ἢ λεπτον Καλο δ' ίδρώς ψυχρός χέει, τρόμα Φαίνομαι ἄπνες. « tiochus, who fell in Love with Stratonice, his Mo“ther-in-law, and (not daring to difcover his Paffion) pretended to be confin'd to his Bed by Sickness, tells us, that Erafiftratus, the Phyfician, found out the "Nature of his Diftemper by thofe Symptoms of Love which he had learnt from Sappho's Writings. σε Stratonice Απο |