SAPPHO

6 To ApnuRopITE

Athenatus Detours af μη: This being so, our own
yathering together like this for talk over the wine-cup,
‘ne man of sense emi reasonably grudge us, as Alewis
says in The Tientiies; “tor we never do our veighbours
injury .. 0: and Wiloever langhs. drinks, lewes, and. it he
18 lucky, dines oui. the most during his time of liberty
[from death and darkness}, he goes home [τὸ death? the best
satistied with his days at the festival.” Al so let me say
in the words of the beautiful Sappho:

.. . Come. Queen of Love, to bear round golden
eups of nectar mingled with gentle cheer unto these

comrades of thine and mine.!

7 [To Avuronire] and 8
Apollonius Promeens: Sof ‘to thee’ Attie. lonie and
Aeolic have alike this form compare Sappho:
and to thee I [will burn the rich] fat of a white
goat,—?*
and the form usual to them with 7, as
and I will leave behind for thee . .

9% To ApHRODITE
Id. Syitee: There ave hortaters adverbs of supplication ;
compare :
O golden-wreathed Aphrodite, would that such
alot as this were mine .. .!

— company (he proceeds ‘for whose [masenline) benetit
must ποῦν remark >, or this was onee the introductory
— to Sappheo's Lye. the maseuline including the
en

lintwe : the nectar is of course metaphorical Ξ white
Goats were sacritivd te Aphrodite Pamlemos. ef Lae. 2},
Mer. 7 * ef. Wh. πὶ πάλ. 2. 28, 31 enw, FW. 558. 28

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