Eri'na

Eri'na, a Greek poetess, the intimate friend of Sappho, born at Rhodes, or on the little island of Telos, to the west of Rhodes. The hypothesis of a second poetess of the same name, in the 4th century B.C., which is based on a statement of Eusebius, is generally rejected. Though she died at the early age of nineteen, Erinna acquired such celebrity by her epics, that her verses were compared with those of Homer. Of her principal poem only four lines are extant; and, of the three epigrams preserved in Schneidewin's Delectus Poesis Græcæ Elegiacæ (Göttingen, 1839), two at least are not genuine.