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Sappho <ref name="term_79335" /> | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_170612" /> == | ||
<p> (n.) 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. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_79335" /> == | |||
<p> A lyric poetess of [[Greece]] of the 7th century B.C., and a contemporary of Alcæus; was a woman of strong passions and of questionable morality, but of undoubted genius, her lyrics being among the masterpieces of antiquity, though only two of her odes and some short fragments of others remain; of her history little is known, and what is known is far from reliable. </p> | <p> A lyric poetess of [[Greece]] of the 7th century B.C., and a contemporary of Alcæus; was a woman of strong passions and of questionable morality, but of undoubted genius, her lyrics being among the masterpieces of antiquity, though only two of her odes and some short fragments of others remain; of her history little is known, and what is known is far from reliable. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_170612"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/sappho Sappho from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_79335"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/sappho Sappho from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_79335"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/sappho Sappho from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:58, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) 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.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A lyric poetess of Greece of the 7th century B.C., and a contemporary of Alcæus; was a woman of strong passions and of questionable morality, but of undoubted genius, her lyrics being among the masterpieces of antiquity, though only two of her odes and some short fragments of others remain; of her history little is known, and what is known is far from reliable.
