..., in his Rhetoric, records that third poet once addressed Sappho as follows:-- I wish to speak, but shame restrains my tongue. Now this apology may have had the simplest possible occasion. Alcaeus may have undertaken to amend a verse of Sappho's and have spoiled it; or he may have breakfasted in the garden, with her and her maidens, and may have spilled some honey from Hymettus on a crimson-bo...