Note 164 — VII. SAPPHO IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE

There is an interesting item in Natales Comes, Mythologiae sive explicationes fabularum, Venice, 1551, Book V, c. XVI, p. 286, “Scriptum reliquit Sappho, Adonim mortuum fuisse a Venere inter lactucas depositum.” According to Athenaeus 69 d, Cratinus had Aphrodite conceal Phaon among the “fair wild-lettuces.”