A reception history of how the jealousy reading of Sappho fragment 31 was made and kept. Antiquity holds the maker and authority on love, the lover who loses, and the poem's detached body apart, and no seated ancient witness joins the lover to the poem through jealousy. The modern record shows the reading made by acts of different kinds, each read at its page: Hermann's declared conjecture of 1816 ('refinxi') and the conditional reading he drew from it, Welcker's refusal of it by name, Mure's rival given as the scene (1850), Bergk's apparatus, Smyth's denial, Page's declared amendment authorized by an account of antiquity (1955), and present-day headings, introductions and classrooms that name the emotion before the poem. Closure of the text and closure of the reading are separate operations, and the reading survives a marked text and a quoted objection. The same reception took the poet's hand: antiquity shows her reading and writing, and she is received as a voice overwhelmed. The findings are read under the sophistry measure (#1727).