SAPPHO
86 [To Arrnis]

From the same Manuscript :

(Atthis, our beloved Anactoria dwells in’ far-off]
Sardis, but she often sends her thoughts hither,
thinking how once we used to live in the days when
vou were like a glorious Goddess to her and she
loved your song the best. And now she shines among
the dames of Lydia as after sunset the rosy-fingered
Moon! beside the stars that are about her, when she
spreads her light ocr briny sea and cke o'er flowery
field, while the dew lies so fair on the ground and the
roses revive and the dainty anthryse and the melilot
with all its blooms. And oftentime while our be-
leved wanders abroad, when she calls to mind the
love of gentle Atthis, her tender breast, for sure, is
weighed down deep with longing: and she cries aloud
for us to come thither: and what she says we know
full well, you and I, for Night that hath the many

ears calls it to us across the dividing sea.?

was Atthis the Sun ἡ 2 a letter to fAtthis}: ef. 38s

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