ERINNA, Greek poet, friend of Sappho, flourished about 600 (according to Eusebius, 35o B.e.). Although she died at the age of 19, her poems were among the most famous of her time. Of her best known poem 'HAarcarrl (the Distaff), written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric, which contained 30o hexameter lines, only four lines are now extant. Three epigrams in the Palatine anthology, also ascribed to her, probably belong to a later date.
The fragments have been edited (with those of Alcaeus) by J. Pellegrino (1894) .