SAPPHO
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From a Second-Century Papyrus :
ee. When tempests rage, the mariner, for fear of
the ereat blasts of the wind. doth cast his
cargo overboard and drive his vessel ashore:
as tot me, | pray | may be bound nowhither
in time of storm.'! nor be fain to cast all my
cargo, precious or not, into the deep; but if
be it should fall to Nereus in his Howing
pageant of Uie sea to receive the gift of my

goods. ...

From the Same:

If iny paps could still give suck and my womb
were able to bear children, then would I come to
another marriage-bed with unfaltering feet: but nay,
age now maketh a thousand wrinkles to go upon my
. flesh. and Love is in no haste to fly to me with his
gift of paimn—...... of the noble... taking

Ὁ sing us the praises of her of the violet-sweet

a

levemak 2. .3

. Theor. 0. 1. * this unitilated sentenve tlowes et
“- . belong to the same poem

‘hag of COR γῶν, 80> preeeled ἣν τ fragmentary
Limes ivet thes esserily yore τὴ tlhe saree pee - pestored by
me ot Com 1919. 126 * = Berges, cf. κίνδυν, Φόρκυν
* δλγεσίδωρος: from 2S ὁ the last two words trom Apoll.

Pron. 384 B (see Alc. 138)

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