{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph88.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph88.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph88.htm","text":"\u0393\u03bb\u03cd\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u03bc\u1fb6\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1, \u03bf\u1f54 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9 \u03b4\u03cd\u03bd\u03b1\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03ba\u03c1\u03ad\u03ba\u03b7\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u1f34\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd,\n \u03c0\u03cc\u03b8\u1ff3 \u03b4\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b1\u1fd6\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3 \u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd \u03b4\u1f30 \u1f08\u03c6\u03c1\u03cc\u03b4\u03b9\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nMy sweet mother, broken by soft Aphrodite's spell, longing for a youth, I can no more weave the cloth.\nMy sweet mother! Fair Aphrodite's spell\n Has from me sense and reason all bereft,\n And, yearning for that dear beloved youth,\n No longer can I see the warp or weft.\nQuoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 87: My sweet mother! Fair Aphrodite'...","type":"page"}