Lexic.us

Definition of Sappho

1. Noun. The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC).

Definition of Sappho

1. n. Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright- colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

Definition of Sappho

1. Proper noun. An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by a poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Sappho

1. Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-coloured and deeply forked tails. Synonym: firetail. See: Sapphic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sappho

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Sappho [after a pause] — The bow hath sprung — [Pressing her hands to her breast. ... Sappho [in the same tone] — Think'st thou that Sappho hath become so ..."

2. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"A literal translation and numerous selected renderings in English are presented in Henry Thornton Whar- ton's Sappho (London, 1885, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Sappho (anide, and turning away). In ocean's depths be sunk the golden lyre, ... Again Sappho recoils, and again he misunderstands and reproaches her. ..."

4. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1898)
"Sappho. Plate II. 19-7 X9'6 cm. Part of a poem in Sapphics written in the Aeolic dialect. Portions of twenty lines are preserved, a foot and a half being ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"To know who was Mr. Cromwell's Sappho is r*ot important ; but even here, ... But every woman who dabbled in literature was occasionally called Sappho in ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Sappho [after a pause] — The bow hath sprung — [Pressing her hands to her breast. ... Sappho [in the same tone] — Think'st thou that Sappho hath become so ..."

7. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"A literal translation and numerous selected renderings in English are presented in Henry Thornton Whar- ton's Sappho (London, 1885, ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Sappho (anide, and turning away). In ocean's depths be sunk the golden lyre, ... Again Sappho recoils, and again he misunderstands and reproaches her. ..."

9. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1898)
"Sappho. Plate II. 19-7 X9'6 cm. Part of a poem in Sapphics written in the Aeolic dialect. Portions of twenty lines are preserved, a foot and a half being ..."

10. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"To know who was Mr. Cromwell's Sappho is r*ot important ; but even here, ... But every woman who dabbled in literature was occasionally called Sappho in ..."

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