Phaon

Phaon ferried her over to Asia Minor and accepted no payment for doing so.

Sappho was so distraught with his rejection that she threw herself into the sea under the superstition that she would be either cured of her love, or drowned.

Aside from Aelian, Phaon's story is told by Ovid and Lucian.

He is also mentioned by Plautus in Miles Gloriosus as being one of only two men in the whole world, who "ever had the luck to be so passionately loved by a woman" (Act 3).

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary.