Fragment 139
139Athenaeus says:—
‘The beautiful Sappho in several places celebrates her brother, Larĭchus, as cup-bearer to the Mitylenaeans in the town-hall.’
The Scholiast on the Iliad, xx. 234, says:—
‘It was the custom, as Sappho also says, for well-born and beautiful youths to pour out wine.’
Cf. fr. 5.