{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph20.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph20.htm","text":"... \u03a0\u1f78\u03b4\u03b1\u03c3 \u03b4\u03ad\n \u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03ba\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03c3 \u03bc\u03ac\u03c3\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3 \u1f10\u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03c5\u03c0\u03c4\u03b5, \u039b\u03cd\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd \u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nA broidered strap of beautiful Lydian work covered her feet.\nHer shining ankles clad in fairest fashion\n In broidered leather from the realm of Lydia,\n So came the Goddess.\nThis 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.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 19: A broidered strap...","type":"page"}