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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"...
- 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...
- Ἀνακτορία) is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Gr**** poet Sappho. Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, names...
- Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Gr**** poet Sappho of the island of ****s. The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. 'It seems...
- 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 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...
- The Ode to Aphrodite (or Sappho fragment 1) is a lyric poem by the archaic Gr**** poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries...
- Aphrodite!", followed by "Great Hera!", "Merciful Minerva!", and "Suffering Sappho!', some of which were contributed by Elizabeth Holloway Marston. Diana,...
- Sappho (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer. The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself...
- 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...