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THE POEMS OF SAPPHO
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Οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀτέρα παῖς, ὦ γάμβε, τοαύτα.
For, like her, O bridegroom, there was no other maiden.
From Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
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Α. Παρθενία, παρθενία, ποῖ με λίποισ᾽ ἀποίχῃ;
Β. Οὐκέτι ἤχω πρὸς σέ, οὐκέτι ἤχω.
Maidenhood, maidenhood, whither art thou gone from me?
Never, O, never again, shall I return to thee.
Quoted by Demetrius, to show the beauty of Sappho’s style, and her successful use of repetition.
105
Φαίνεταί ϝοι κῆνος . . . .
To himself he seems . . .
Quoted by Apollonius to show the use of ϝ in Aeolic Greek.
