Fragment 151

151The Etymologicum Magnum says of Ἀμάρα, a trench for watering meadows, ‘because it is raised by a water-bucket, ἄμη being a mason’s instrument’—that it is a word Sappho seems to have used; and Orion, about the fifth century A.D., also explains the word similarly, and says Sappho used it.