{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph26.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph26.htm","text":"\u03a3\u03ba\u03b9\u03b4\u03bd\u03b1\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03b8\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u1f44\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\n \u03bc\u03b1\u03c8\u03c5\u03bb\u03ac\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd \u03b3\u03bb\u1ff6\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03b5\u03c6\u03c5\u03bb\u03ac\u03c7\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nWhen anger spreads through the breast keep thy tongue from barking foolishly (or idly).\nWhen anger surges through thy heart\n 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.\"","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 25: When anger spreads...","type":"page"}