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Sapphic, a. and n.|ˈsæfɪk|
Also 6 Saphik, Saphic(ke, 6–8 Sap(p)hick, 7 Sap(p)hique.
[a. F. saphique, † sapphique (16th c. in Godefroy), ad. L. Sapphic-us, a. Gr. σαπϕικός.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Sappho (σαπϕώ), the famous poetess of Lesbos (c 600 b.c.); spec. epithet of the metres used by her (see B).
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. ii. iv, Metir saphik, and also elygie. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ix. 43 She inuented the verses which after her name are called Saphic. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sapphique Verse. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. v. 100 Iambick, and Sapphick Verses. 1871Public Sch. Lat. Gram. 472 Catullus has two Sapphic Odes. 1872Calverley Fly Leaves (1884) 97 She'd throw off odes, again, whose flow And fire were more than Sapphic.
B. n. A metre used by Sappho or named after her. Chiefly pl., verses written in the Sapphic stanza.
greater Sapphic: a logaœdic distich of which the first line is –˘˘–˘–{shtlong2} and the second (the Greater Sapphic verse) is {shtlong1}{shtlong2}–{shtlong2}–˘˘–‖ –˘˘–˘–{shtlong2}. lesser Sapphic: a logaœdic hendecasyllable with a dactyl in the third place (–˘–{shtlong2}–˘˘–˘–{shtlong2}). The ‘Sapphic stanza’ consists of three Lesser Sapphics followed by an Adonic (–˘˘–{shtlong2}).
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1598) 78 Zelmane..tooke out of his hand the Lute, and..sung these Saphikes. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 81 For tryall of which I haue turned the new Poets sweete song of Eliza into such homely Sapphick as I coulde. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 50 Give me leave to salute you first in these Sapphics. 1730Swift Dan Jackson's Picture, To give us a Description graphick Of Dan's large Nose, in modern Saphick. 1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer II. vii. 49 Lumbering hexameters and dolorous sapphics consequently made their appearance in English literature. |