Crossword-Solution: SAPPHIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sapphic | a. | Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse. |
| Sapphic | a. | Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl. |
| Sapphic | n. | A Sapphic verse. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SAPPHIC”
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| Classic verse form | 1 answer |
| Like some ancient Greek poetry | 1 answer |
| Like some odes | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with SAPPHIC (5)
For as the olive-garland of the race, Which lights with joy each eager runner’s face, As the red cross which saveth men in war, As a flame-bearded beacon seen from far By mariners upon a storm-tossed sea,— Such was his love for Greece and Liberty! Byron, thy crowns are ever fresh and green: Red leaves of rose from Sapphic Mitylene Shall bind thy brows; the myrtle blooms for thee, In hidden glades by lonely Castaly; The laurels wait thy coming: all are thine, And round thy head one perfect wreath will twine.
One day when Sossius entertained us, upon singing some Sapphic verses, this question was started, how it could be true That love in all doth vigorous thoughts inspire, And teaches ignorants to tune the lyre? Since Philoxenus, on the contrary, asserts, that the Cyclops With sweet-tongued Muses cured his love.
Amongst the wild Arabs, who ignore Socratic and Sapphic perversions, the lover is always more jealous of his beloved's girl-friends than of men rivals.
Odes and Epodes, thus acquired, were a score of days and weeks; alcaic and sapphic verses like a bead-roll for counting off the time that intervened before the holidays.
Every altar, Juvenal said, had its Clodius, and even in Clodius' absence there were always those breaths of Sapphic song that blew through Mitylene.
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1995–2024).