person
Mnasidica
also: Μνασιδίκα
A girl of Sappho's circle, praised in fr. 82 as more shapely than the tender Gyrinno; possibly the Dica of fr. 81 under her full name.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Books Three and Four §82 Mnasidica
A girl of the circle, compared in shapeliness — εὔμορφος, well-formed — against the tender Gyrinno. Hephaestion kept the line only as a specimen of metre; the comparison's occasion is lost.