an island and cape in the Mediterranean sea, on the south-west point of the Morea, E. long. 21° 15', N. lat. 36° 45'.

SAPPHIC, in poetry, a kind of verse much used by the Greeks and Latins, denominated from the inventress Sappho. The Sapphic verse consists of five feet, whereof the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl.