SAPPHO

shall be accomplished, and putting away his former
errors he shall become a delight to his friends and
a grief to his enemies: and may our house be dis-
graced of no man. And may he be willing to bring
honour to his sister; and the sore pain and the
words wherewith, in bitter resentment of a taunt
that must have cut to the quick, he sought ere he
departed to overwhelm my heart,—O, when return
he does on some near day, may he choose amid his
tellow-townsmen’s mirth! to cast them clean away,
and to have a mate, if he desire one, in wedlock due
and worthy ;? and as for thee, thou black and baleful
she-dog,? thou mayst set that evil snout to the

ground and go a-hunting other prey.

87 [Τὸ Craraxus]
From a Second-Century Papyrus :
O Cypris, and he found thee more bitter.
And the others, they boasted loud and said: ‘What
a delightful love-match hath Doricha made this
second time!’ 3
1 at a feast of welcome % “or find a mate... amony

worthy maids 8 Poricha or R hodopis a famous courtesan
beloved by S.’s brother Charaxus in KE egypt; see p. 149

"21. 88 Lobel εἰ, “21. 164 8 ]-S8 fragmentary. containing
μάκαιρα (1), [ἄμ]βροτε 5): 9-10 Wil, 11- 12 Hunt

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