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The Poems of Sappho: 11: This will I now sing...

... Τάδε νῦν ἐταίραισ ταῖσ ἔμαισι τέρπνα κάλωσ ἀείσω. [transcription] This will I now sing skilfully to please my friends. Athanaeus quotes this to show that there is not necessarily any reproach in the word ἐταίραι [transcription] . Like many others, the fragment is unfortunately too short for anything but a literal translation. The breathing of the word in question in Attic Greek would of course be rough.