SAPPHO
thee’: and 1 answered her + Go your way rejoicing
and remember me. for you know how { doted upon
you. And if you remember not. O then T will temind
you of what you forget, how dear and beautiful was
the life we led together. For with many! a garland
of violets and sweet roses mingled you have decked
your flowing locks by my side. and with many a
woven necklet made of a hundred blossoms your
dainty throat ; and with many a jar of myrrh, both
of the precious and the royal, have you anointed
your fair young skin betore me. and [lying upon] the
couch have taken vour fill of dainty [meats and of

sweet drinks]

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From the same Manuscript :

(And 1 answered you|, +1 swear ‘to you by
the Goddess that although Ι. like you.] hi ad [of Zeus]
bat one virginity, [nevertheless] I feared [not the
thre shold) beyond which Hera had bidden ime cast
it away. Ave. thus I] heartened you, and cried
aloud. * That nieh τὸ was sweet enough [to me,] neither
have vou. dear maid, anything to fear.’

1 ἡ δι on many separate occasions

* of. Gram. 4.4. 2. 945. 5] © Powe, of CLR. WG. p. 153:
separation of strophes doubtful * we should perh. read

ὠρρώδην here and ὠξυβόην below
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