Much of "Fragment 96" is an extended simile between Atthis's lover and the moon. "But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women/as sometimes at sunset/the rosyfingered moon/surpasses all the stars" In "Fragment 96" Sappho compares her companion Atthis to a goddess. In "Fragment 58," Sappho compares her shaking knees to those of a newborn fawn to describe the weakness of old age. In "Fragment 44," Sappho repeatedly uses this phrase to compare first the people of Troy, and then Hektor and Andromache, to gods. In "Fragment 1," Sappho uses metaphor to compare Aphrodite's mind to an ornamented object to comment on the goddess's cunning nature. "Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind"
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