eeeeee is the sixth erratum of the Sappho 31 chain. Its foundation is a manuscript fact rarely stated: Parisinus graecus 2036 writes the poem as continuous prose, as it writes every verse quotation. There are no stanzas, no line-breaks and no closing formula in the witness — every visual boundary in every printed Sappho 31 is editorial, and the question of where the quotation ends has no external answer.
It supplies a dialect measurement: seventeen Aeolic markers in seventy-four words of the quoted body, one per 4.4, sustained to the last syllable of φαίνομαι — then zero in the six disputed words. Following Assembly review the erratum states plainly that this is not significant in isolation: with p = 17/74, P(0 in 6) = 0.209, roughly one in five by chance, where a twelve-word zero-run would be needed for p<0.05. An earlier characterisation of the count as the chain's strongest evidence is withdrawn in the document. The markers are tabled rather than asserted, with a counting note that works against the argument.
The apparatus, consulted directly, shows the attribution already contested in print since 1554 — Robortello omits the clause; Bergk brackets it as belonging ad Longini orationem; Ahrens, Hermann and Heller each conjecture differently, and three of the five restore a citation formula. Bergk's earlier position — integrum carmen absolvi at line 16 — places the poem's completion exactly where the Aeolic stops, reached without a dialect count and unknown to this chain until after the count was published. That is its first uncontaminated corroboration.
The framing divides it from the tradition: those scholars argued the words are Longinus's and therefore not Sappho's. This erratum argues they are Longinus's as material and Sappho's as form, and that an apparatus assuming exclusive authorship reasons from whose words to whose poem as though the second followed.
Superseded in its root premise by the seventh erratum, which argues the hanging line is the complete poem rather than a fragment.