Note 4 — Chapter I
Reading edition
The nine "Terrestrial Muses" were Sappho, Erinna, Myrus, Myrtis, Corinna, Telesilla, Praxilla, Nossis and Anyta.
The Greek poet Antipater embodies the names of the "Terrestrial Nine" in an epigram which is well rendered in the appended Latin translation:
Has divinis linguis Helicon nutrivit mulieres Hymnis, et Macedon Pierias scopulus, Prexillam, Myro, Anytæ os, fœminam Homerum, Lesbidum Sappho ornamentum capillatarum. Erinnam, Telesillam nobilem, teque Corinna, Strenuum Palladis scutum quæ cecinit. Nossidem muliebri lingua, et dulsisonam Myrtin, Omnes immortalium operatrices librorum. Novem quidem Musas magnum cœlum, novem vero illas Terra genuit hominibus, immortalem lætitiam.