TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS
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Ἤ σε Κύπρος καὶ Πάφος ἢ Πάνορμος
If thee, Cyprus or Paphos or Panormos [holds].
This from Strabo, early first century A.D. Panormos was a frequent name, and does not refer to Palermo, which was not founded in Sappho’s time.
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But for thee I will [bring] to the altar [the young] of a white goat . . . and add a libation for thee. Cited by Apollonius of Alexandria about A.D. 140. The reading is uncertain.
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Αἴθ᾽ ἔγω χρυσοστέφαν᾽ Ἀφρόδιτα,
τόνδε τὸν πάλον λαχόην.
May I win this prize, O golden-crowned Aphrodite.
From Apollonius. Sappho invented many beautiful epithets to apply to Aphrodite, and this fragment contains one of them.