{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sappho/sappho1.htm","path":"cla/sappho/sappho1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho1.htm","text":"... Po`das de' poi'kilos ma'slhs e?ka'lupte, Lu'dion ka'lon e?'rgon.\nA broidered strap of beautiful Lydian work covered her feet.\n \n Her shining ankles clad in fairest fashion\n In broidered leather from the realm of Lydia,\n So came the Goddess.\n \n \n \n This fragment is very likely from an invocation to Aphrodite. It is from the Scholiast on Aristophanes' \"Peace,\" 1174; Pollux about A.D. 180 also mentions it.\n ... Pantoda'pais memigme'na xroi'aisin.\nShot with innumerable hues.\nQuoted by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, i, 727. Sappho's reference may be to the rainbow.\n E?'me\u00f0en d? e?'xeis\u00f0a la'\u00f0an.\nThou forgettest me.\n ... H?' tin? a?'llon [ma^llon] a?n\u00f0rw'pwn e?'me\u00f0en filhs\u00f0a.\nOr lovest another more than you do me.\nBoth from Apollonius to show the Aeolic e?'methen for e?'mou^.\n Ou?' ti moi u?'mmes.\nYou are nought to me.\n As \u00f0elet? u?'mmes.\nWhile you will.\nThese are quoted by Apollonius to show the Aeolic form u?'mmes.\n kai` po\u00f0h'w kai` ma'omai.\nI yearn and I seek.\nFrom the \"Etymologicum Magnum\" to show the Aeolic form po\u00f0e'w, \"I yearn.\"\n Skidname'nas e?n sth'\u00f0esin o?'rgas mapsula'kan glw^ssan pefula'x\u00f0ai.\nWhen anger spreads through the breast keep thy tongue from barking foolishly (or idly).\n When anger surges through thy heart Let not thy foolish tongue take part.\nThis piece of somewhat sentenious advice is of an unusual type amongst the Sapphic fragments. It is quoted by Plutarch in his essay \"On Restraining Anger.\"\n \n Ai? d? h?^xes e?'slwn i?'meron h?' ka'lwn,\n kai` mh' ti vei'pen glw^ss? e?ku'ka ka'kon,\n ai?'dws ke' s? ou? ki'xanen o?'ppat?\n a?'ll? e?'leges peri` tw^ dikai'ws.\n \n \n \n Hadst thou wished for things good or noble and had not thy tongue formed evil speech, shame would not have shown from they eyes, but thou hadst spoken frankly about it.\nAristotle (\"Rhetoric\", i, 9), about 330 B.C., says \"base things dishonour those who do or wish them, as Sappho showed when Alcaeus said:\n ?io'plok? a?'gna mellixo'meide Sa'pfoi \u00f0e'lw ti vei'pen a?'lla' me kwlu'ei ai?'dws.\n\"'Violet-weaving, chaste sweetly smiling Sappho, I would speak but bashfulness restrains me.'\"\nAnd she answered him in the words of the present fragment. Blass thinks that these two lines assigned to Alcaeus are also by Sappho, and about A.D. 1110 Anna Comnena certainly suggested the same authorship.\n Sta^\u00f0i ka?'nta fi'los,.... kai` ta`n e?'p? o?'ssois a?mpe'tason xa'rin.\nFace me, my dear one...and unveil the grace in thine eyes.\n Turn to me, dear one, turn thy face, And unveil for me in thine eyes, their grace.\nAthenaeus says that Sappho addressed this poem, of which this is a fragment, to a man famous for his physical beauty. It has also been suggested that the lines may have been addressed to Sappho's brother. It need not, however, necessarily be assumed that any particular person is meant.\n Xru'seoi d? e?re'bin\u00f0oi e?p? ai?o'nwn e?fu'onto.\nAnd golden pulse grew along the shores.\nFrom Athenaeus.\n La'tw kai` Nio'ba ma'la me`n fi'lai h?^san e?'tairai.\nLato and Niobe were most dear friends.\n Mna'ses\u00f0ai' tina' fami kai` u?'steron a?mme'wn.\nI think men will remember us even hereafter.\nFrom Dio Chrysostom, who, writing about A.D. 100, remarks that this is said \"with perfect beauty.\"\n H?ra'man me`n e?'gw se'\u00f0en, A?'t\u00f0i, pa'lai po'ta.\nI loved thee Atthis, once long ago.\nFrom Hephaestion, about A.D. 150, quoted as an example of metre.\n Smi'kra moi` pai^s e?'mmen e?fai'neo ka?'xaris.\nTo me thou didst seem a small and ungraceful child.\nQuoted by Plutarch and others.\n A?'ll? o?'nmh` magalu'nneo daktuli'w pe'ri.\nFoolish woman! Have no pride about a ring.\nMentioned by Herodian about A.D. 160.\n Ou?k oi?^d? o?'tti \u00f0e'w, du'o moi ta` noh'mata.\nI know not what to do: I have two minds.\n In doubt I am, I have two minds, I know not what to do.\nQuoted about 220 B.C. by Chrysippus, the Stoic philosopher.\n Psau'hn d? ou? doki'moim? o?ra'nw du'si p'axesin.\nWith my two arms, I do not aspire to to touch the sky.\nQuoted by Herodian.\n W?'s de` pai^s pe'da ma'tera pepteru'twmai.\nSo, like a child after its mother, I flutter.\nFrom the \"Etymologicum Magnum.\"\n H?^ros ?'aggelos i?mero'fwnos a?'h'dwn.\nThe messager of spring, the sweet voiced nighingale.\nQuoted by the Scholiast on the Electra of Sophocles, 149, \"the nightingale is the messager of Zeus, because it is the sign of spring.\"\nCompare Ben Johnson's \"The Sad Shepherd,\" Act II, Scene vi: \"The dear good angel of the Spring, the nightingale.\"\n E?'ros dau?^te' m? o? lusime'les do'nei, gluku'pikron a?ma'xanon o?'rpeton.\nNow Love, the ineluctable, dominates and shakes my being, and fills me with bitter-sweetness.\n Now Love, the ineluctable, with bitter sweetness Fills me, overwhelms me, and shakes my being.\nQuoted by Hephaestion.\n A?'t\u00f0i soi` d e?'me\u00f0e'n men a'ph'x\u00f0eto fronti'sden, e?'pi d? A?ndrome'dan po'thj.\nBut to thee, Athis, the thought of me is hateful; thou fliest to Andromeda.\nQuoted by Hephaestion with the preceding, to which it does not appear really to belong.\n E?'ros dau?^t? e`ti'naksen e?'moi fre'nas, a?'nemos kat o?'ros dru'sin e?mpe'swn.\nNow Eros shakes my soul, a wind on the mountain overwhelming the oaks.\n Now like a mountain wind the oaks o'erwhelming, Eros shakes my soul.\nQuoted by Maximus Tyrius about 150 B.C. He speaks of Socrates exciting Phaedus to madness, when he speaks of love.\n O?'ta pa'nnuxos a?'sfi kata'grei.\nWhen all night long [sleep] holds them.\nBergk suggest that the words o?'ppat? a?'wros may have preceeded these words. The fragment quoted by Apollonius, and its sense may be \"when all night long sleep holds their eyes,\"\n A?'ge dh` xe'lu di^a' moi fwna'essa ge'noio.\nCome, O divine shell, yield thy resonances to me.\n Come, O come, divinest shell, And in my ear all thy secrets tell.\nQuoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing her lyre. The legend is that Hermes is supposed to have made the first lyre by stretching the strings across the cavity of a tortise's shell.\n Ka?pa'lais u?po\u00f0u'midas ple'ktais a?mp? a?palaj de'raj\nAnd delicately woven garlands round tender neck.\nQuoted by Athenaeus","title":"The Poems of Sappho, Part II","type":"page"}