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sapphic The Roman poets Catullus and Horace composed wonderful love poems in sapphic verse. sapphic*

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(1) Lesbian. (2) Relating to a poetic verse pattern associated with Sappho. The poet Sappho wrote poems of self-reflection but also of passion, some of it directed to the women attending the school she conducted on the Greek island of Lesbos around 600 B.C. Even though most of the poems survive only as fragments, they have been greatly admired for many centuries. They were written in an original rhythmical pattern, which has become known as sapphic verse. Later admirers, such as the Roman poets Catullus and Horace, honored her by adopting the sapphic meter for their own poetry. Because of Sappho, the island of Lesbos also gave its name to lesbianism, which writers often used to call sapphic love

word	sapphic
definition	(1) Lesbian. (2) Relating to a poetic verse pattern associated with Sappho.
eg_sentence	The Roman poets Catullus and Horace composed wonderful love poems in sapphic verse.
explanation	The poet Sappho wrote poems of self-reflection but also of passion, some of it directed to the women attending the school she conducted on the Greek island of Lesbos around 600 B.C. Even though most of the poems survive only as fragments, they have been greatly admired for many centuries. They were written in an original rhythmical pattern, which has become known as sapphic verse. Later admirers, such as the Roman poets Catullus and Horace, honored her by adopting the sapphic meter for their own poetry. Because of Sappho, the island of Lesbos also gave its name to lesbianism, which writers often used to call sapphic love
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Sapphic Poems Roman Poets Catullus Love Verse Island