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The Poems of Sappho: 87: My sweet mother! Fair Aphrodite'...

Γλύκεια μᾶτερ, οὔ τοι δύναμαι κρέκην τὸν ἴστον, πόθῳ δάμεισα παῖδοσ βραδίναν δἰ Ἀφρόδιταν. [transcription] My sweet mother, broken by soft Aphrodite's spell, longing for a youth, I can no more weave the cloth. My sweet mother! Fair Aphrodite's spell Has from me sense and reason all bereft, And, yearning for that dear beloved youth, No longer can I see the warp or weft. Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre.