SAPPHO

fair tidings unto the people of Ida ...... and
{throughout} the rest of Asia these tidings were
a fame that never died: ‘Hector and his comrades
bring from sacred Thebe? and ever-flowing Placia,
by ship upon the briny sea, the dainty Andromache
of the glancing eve; and many are the golden
bracelets, and the purple robes, aye and the fine
smooth broideries, indeed a richly-y ‘aried bride- eift:
and without number also are the silver goblets and
the ornaments of ivory.’ So spake the herald:
and Hector’s dear father leapt up in haste. and
the news went forth through Ilus’ spacious city.
Straightway the children of Ilus harnessed the
mules to the wheel¢d cars, and the whole throng
of the women and of the slender-ankled maidens
mounted therein, the daughters of Priam riding
apart; and the men did harness horses to the
chariots, and the young men went with them one
and all; till a ‘mighty people moved mightily
along, and the drivers drove their boss-bedizened
steeds out of [the city]... .. .. +. « [Then,
when the) god-like [Hector and Androm he were
mounted in the chariots, the men of Troy and the
women of Troy] accompanied them in one great
company into {lovely| Ilium... . . . they mingled
...... And now, when the maidens

1 in Mysia

2 one or more lines omitted here in P OR: Pia
ὃ Glphware FE. cf. Hesveli: P ἀθύρματα P Ath. 480 ε]
5 Ρ ἀνόρουσε ὁ Fike Δ ΤΠ .}: P φιλοις' 7 number of
lines Jost unknown 8. for qumaqrear ¢-rir), of. Hesveh,
ἀγνεῖν 9 number of lines lost unknown

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