Fragment 142

‘Yet that gold does not contract rust the Lesbian poetess is a witness, and gold itself shows it.’

And the Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth., iv. 407:—

‘But gold is indestructible; and so says Sappho,

Διος παῖς ὁ χρυσός, κείνον οὐ σης οὐδε κὶς δάπτει,

Gold is son of Zeus, no moth nor worm devours it.’

Sappho’s own phrase is lost.