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SAPPHO.
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When she perished, her fair companions all with the steel in her honour
Shore from their heads the lovely tresses, and laid on her tomb.
120
On one whose days were labour and sorrow.
O'er the fisherman Pelagon here by Meniskus his father are planted
His oar and his weel, for memorials of days ever travail-haunted.
XXIX.
98.
Satiric skit on a gigantic hall-porter.
What a door-keeper! O fit theme for song!
A very Titan—feet seven fathoms long!
To make his sandals five bulls' hides were brought,
And cobblers seven the mighty fabric wrought.
XXX.
To Anactoria
who has forsaken a once-loved girl-friend of Sappho.
Rushing war-hosts, horsemen or foot or galleys—
These doth one call, those doth another, fairest
