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Meaning of Sappho | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
[ˈsap.pʰoː]

Equivalents

Deutsch Sappho
Ελληνικά Σαπφώ
English Sappho
Español Safo
Français Sappho
Հայերեն Սապփո
Italiano Saffo
日本語 サッポー
Nederlands Sappho
Polski Safona
Português safo
Русский Сапфо́ Сафо́

Examples

“[1st century CE], Plinius, Naturalis Historia, lib. XXII, cap. IX, num. 20; in: Pliny Natural History with an English translation in ten volumes Volume VI Libri XX-XXIII By W. H. S. Jones, 1951, page 308f.”

This, it is said, is how Phaon of Lesbos too won the love of Sappho, there being much idle trifling on this subject not only among the Magi but also among the Pythagoreans.ᵈ ᵈ As is suggested by the punctuation of Detlefsen and Mayhoff, this sentence is taken to be part of the indirect speech, with multa ablative. With a full stop at Sappho, it could be taken as a comment of Pliny, with multa neuter plural.

“, Guntherus Cisterciensis, De oratione jejunio et eleemosyna libri tredecim, lib. III, cap. V; in: Patrologiae cursus completus sive bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiaticorum. Series secunda. Patrologiae tomus CCXII, edited by J.-P. Migne, 1855, col. 131”

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CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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