Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter L, entry Lesbos a, um, adj., Lesbian: Lesbiaci libri, a work of Dicæarchus on the immortality of the soul (so called because the dialogues contained in it were held at Mitylene, in Lesbos), : metrum, i. e. the Sapphic metre (because Sappho was a native of Lesbos), in carm. (18.83)