{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph50.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph50.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph50.htm","text":"\u03a0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u1f10\u03c6\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f00 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\n \u03b1\u1f30 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f60\u03c3 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u0392\u1ff6\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nThe moon rose full, and as around an altar, stood the women.\nNow rose the moon, full and argentine,\n While round stood the maidens, as at a shrine.\nQuoted by Hephaestion as an example of the metre known as the Ionic a majore trimeter brachycatalectic. Poetically the figure is a fine one, and shows Sappho's wonderful power of visualizing a scene in a few unerringly chosen words. The moon and its light had a great attraction for her, as a number of fragments shows.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 49: The moon rose full...","type":"page"}