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Definition of Sapphos

Sappho
Sappho Sap"pho, n. [See Sapphic.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

Meaning of Sapphos from wikipedia

- there were in fact two Sapphos began to develop. In his Historical Miscellanies, Aelian wrote that there was "another Sappho, a courtesan, not a poetess"...
- Sappho 94, sometimes known as Sappho's Confession, is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Gr**** poet Sappho. The poem is written as a conversation between...
- Sappho was an ancient Gr**** lyric poet from the island of ****s. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only...
- Sappho 31 is an archaic Gr**** lyric poem by the ancient Gr**** poet Sappho of the island of ****s. The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι)...
- Sappho and Alcaeus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch-British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, from 1881. It is held by the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore...
- Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Gr**** lyric poet Sappho. It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known...
- Sappho 44 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Gr**** poet Sappho, which describes the wedding of Hector and Andromache. Preserved on a piece of papyrus...
- Sappho was an English **** social club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others. The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of ****s, met every...
- Look up Sappho in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sappho (died c. 570 BC) was an ancient Gr**** poet. Sappho may also refer to: Sappho (painting), an 1890s...
- Neptis sappho, the Pallas' sailer or common glider, is a nymphalid butterfly found in Central Europe, Russia, India and other parts of temperate Asia and...