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Fragment 134

134The Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius says:—

‘The story of the love of Selēnē is told by Sappho, and by Nicander in the second book of his Europa; and it is said that Selene came to Endymion in the same cave’ (on Mount Latmus in Caria).

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