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The Poems of Sappho: 16: But the spirit within them turne...

ταισι [δὲ] ψῦχροσ μέν ἔγεντο θῦμοσ πὰρ δ᾽ ἴεισι τὰ πτέρα ... [transcription] But the spirit within them turned chill and down dropped their wings. The Scholist quotes this to show that Sappho says the same thing of doves as Pindar (Pyth. 1-10) says of the eagle of Zeus. Another reading is ψαῦκροσ [transcription] , "light", for ψῦχροσ [transcription] , "moist or chill." The sense would then be "the spirit within them became light and they relaxed their wings in rest."