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in Sappho's life was doubtless her relation to her great townsman Alcaeus. These two will always be united in fame as the joint founders ofom nearly all their metres have been traced back. Horace wrote of Alcaeus: The Lesbian poet sang of war amid the din of arms, or when he had these fine lines to the lover of Sappho. And indeed the poems of Alcaeus, so far as they remain, show much of the grace and elegance of Horn on direct evidence; for there remain to us only two verses which Alcaeus addressed to Sappho. The one is a compliment, the other an apologtire into oblivion, and add no more, what a comfort it would be! Alcaeus unhappily went one phrase further, and therefore goes down to futuue. Now this apology may have had the simplest possible occasion. Alcaeus may have undertaken to amend a verse of Sappho's and have spoiled hould think you would be ashamed. But whether the admiration of Alcaeus was more or less ardent, it certainly was not peculiar to him. The