{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph05.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph05.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph05.htm","text":"\u0391\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3 \u03bc\u03ad\u03bd \u1f00\u03bc\u03c6\u03b9 \u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\n \u1f06\u03b9\u03c8 \u1f00\u03c0\u03c5\u03ba\u03c1\u03cd\u03c0\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c6\u03ac\u03b5\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u1f36\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3,\n \u1f44\u03c0\u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bb\u03ac\u03bc\u03c0\u03b7\u03c3\n \u1f00\u03c1\u03b3\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b3\u1fb6\u03bd.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nThe stars about the full moon lose their bright beauty when she, almost full, illumines all earth with silver.\nThe gleaming stars all about the shining moon\n Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid\n In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with clear silver light.\nQuoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica in the twelfth century.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 4: The stars about the full moon...","type":"page"}