{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph116.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph116.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph116.htm","text":"\u03a0\u03cc\u03bb\u03c5 \u03c0\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3 \u1fbd\u03b1\u03b4\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1, \u03c7\u03c1\u03cd\u03c3\u03c9 \u03c7\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u03bf\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1. [transcription]\nThan the lyre, far sweeter in tone, than gold, more golden.\nFar sweeter than the throbbing lyre in sound,\n A voice more golden than gold, new found.\nQuoted by Demetrius to show the poetical value of hyperbolical phrase.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 115: Than the lyre, far sweeter in t...","type":"page"}