{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph17.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph17.htm","text":"\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9 [\u03b4\u1f72] \u03c8\u1fe6\u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3 \u03bc\u03ad\u03bd \u1f14\u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf \u03b8\u1fe6\u03bc\u03bf\u03c3\n \u03c0\u1f70\u03c1 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f34\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1 ...\u00a0[transcription]\n \nBut the spirit within them turned chill and down dropped their wings.\nThe Scholist quotes this to show that Sappho says the same thing of doves as Pindar (Pyth. 1-10) says of the eagle of Zeus.\nAnother reading is \u03c8\u03b1\u1fe6\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3 [transcription] , \"light\", for \u03c8\u1fe6\u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3 [transcription] , \"moist or chill.\" The sense would then be \"the spirit within them became light and they relaxed their wings in rest.\"","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 16: But the spirit within them turne...","type":"page"}