SAPPHO
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Libanius Grates: Tf therefore Sappho the Lesbian could
wish the length of her night doubled, 1 imay make a similar
prayer.

ve... Nay, | tell vou, 1 praved that night of

; ours might be made twice as long.

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From the reverse of the above Manuscript :

. . {It cannot be} long now. [said ἢ. * Surely.’
said] Gong#la, [* you cannot tell 5] or will you show
your children a sign?’ ‘That [ will’ answered I:
‘flermes came in unto me, and looking upon him
I said «O Master, I ain altogether undone: for by
the blessed Goddess I swear to thee I care not so
much any longer that I am exalted unto prosperity.
but a desire hath taken me to die. I would fain
have thee set me in the dewy meadow whither afore-
time thou leddest Atreus’ son Agamemmon and ail
the chosen flower of the Achaeans. 1 must [leave]

this [light of day,] seeing that]. . .”’

1 perh, from the same poem

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