Sappho, the famous early Greek female lyric poet, lived on the island of Lesbos. Horace thought that his claim to fame was that he brought Greek lyric verse forms into Latin poetry. Lyric means literally 'sung to the lyre'. When Horace writes: 'Lesboum barbiton', the lyre from Lesbos, he means 'the kind of lyric verse that Sappho of Lesbos wrote.'