{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph60.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph60.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph60.htm","text":"\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03b8\u03bd\u03ac\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9 \u039a\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c1\u1f20, \u1f04\u03b2\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3 \u1f0c\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3, \u03c4\u03af \u03ba\u03b5 \u03b8\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd,\n \u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03c4\u03cd\u03c0\u03c4\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03ba\u03cc\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03af\u03ba\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03c7\u03af\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nGentle Adonis is dying, O Cythera, what shall we do?\n Beat your breasts, O maidens, and rend your garments.\nGentle Adonis wounded lies, dying, dying.\n What message, O Cythera, dost thou send?\n Beat, beat your white breasts, O ye weeping maidens,\n And in wild grief your mourning garments rend.\nQuoted by Hephaestion and presumed to be written by Sappho from a passage in Pausanias.\nThe reverbrating beat of the repetitions of the letter k is very remarkable.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 59: Gentle Adonis is dying, O Cyther...","type":"page"}