Abstract

Dr. G. S. Kirk suggested that the last line here referred to ‘a fantastically ithyphallic bridegroom’. Professor Lloyd-Jones, while professing uncertainty as to the rightness of this suggestion, thought it ‘quite likely’, and adduced in support of it a story from Tzetzes on Lycophron 1378, a story told also, but in different words, in the Etymologicum Magnum s.v., and containing in this second version the words ‘used in just the sense which Dr. Kirk ascribed to it in Sappho’.