SAPPHO
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From a Second-Century Papyrus:

.# ... And we maidens spend all the night
at this door, singing of the love that is be-
tween thee, thrice happy bridegroom, and
bride whose breast is sweet as violets, But
get thee up and go when the dawn shall
come, and may great Hermes lead thy tect
where thou shalt find just so much ill-luck
as we shall see sleep to-night.

Tne Env or Book I
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Book Il

48 To ATruis

Hephaestion /Tundhook uf Metre [on the Aeolic line]: Of
the avatalectic kinds of Aeolic verse the pentameter is called
tie Ss upphie fourteen-sylable, in which is written the whole
of Sappho’s second Book ; compare ‘Tloved . . . ago.

Plutarch Ameferius: For the vielding of the female to the
male is called byw the ancients χάρις ‘grace’; compare Pindar
where he savs that the Centaur was born of Hera * without
grace, and Sappho's use of ἄχαρις ‘eraceless” of the girl who
was not vet ripe for marriage, * You seemed . . . child’

preserving what was prob, 8.’s own arrangement, that accord-
ing to subjectauattur: the former being presumably made
from the lwtter, it is only to he caperted that some at least
of the metric ally «στα τοι Books would end with ὁ pithalamiiec-
if they formed the lest Pook of the eerlier edition : cf. the
final poem of Book VIL (135)

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