{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph91.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph91.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph91.htm","text":"\u039f\u1f36\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 \u03b3\u03bb\u03c5\u03ba\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f04\u03ba\u03c1\u1ff3 \u1f10\u03c0\u1fbd \u1f54\u03c3\u03b4\u1ff3\n \u1f04\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03c0\u1fbd \u1f00\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03c4\u03ac\u03c4\u1ff3 \u03bb\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03b4\u03c1\u03cc\u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3,\n \u03bf\u1f50 \u03bc\u1f70\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03bb\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u1fbd, \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1fbd \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f10\u03b4\u03cd\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f10\u03c0\u03af\u03ba\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nAs the sweet apple blushes on the end of the bough, the very end of the bough which gatherers missed, nay, missed not, but could not reach.\nAt the end of the bough--its uttermost end,\n Missed by the harvesters, ripens the apple,\n Nay, not overlooked, but far out of reach,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So with all best things.\nQuoted by the Scholiast on Hermogenes and elsewhere. The \"sweet-apple\" to which Sappho refers was probably the result of a a graft of apple on quince.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 90: As the sweet apple blushes on th...","type":"page"}