Lesbian Fragments of Uncertain Ascription

Lesbian fragments of uncertain ascription are Aeolic lines that will not sit firmly with Sappho or with Alcaeus. One says “I shall look upon a fatherland of grim suffering”; another “but a daimon for us”; “but O Sun who furnishest all things”; the immortal gods laughed; they cowered as birds when a swift eagle appeared suddenly; Hero taught Gyara the waterless. Other scraps are glosses (aueoullai = aellai) and broken love-myth and virtue pieces in the second hosted file.

Lobel–Page, Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta (Oxford, 1955), pp. 292–297, and Page, Supplementum lyricis Graecis (Oxford, 1974), pp. 98–102, are the editions. The Canon dates the verse to the seventh and sixth centuries BCE.

The slot is that residual Lesbian class, not a third Lesbian poet.