Lo, Love once more my soul within me rends,
Like wind that on the mountain oak descends.
J. A. Symonds, 1883.
Quoted by Maximus Tyrius, about 150 B.C., in speaking of Socrates exciting Phaedrus to Bacchic frenzy when he talked of love.
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Ὄτα πάννυχος ἄσφι κατάγρει.
When all night long [sleep] holds their [eyes].
Quoted by Apollonius to show the Aeolic form of σφί. Bergk thinks that Sappho may have written—
ὄππατ' [ἄωρος,]
ὄτα πάννυχος ἄσφι κατάγρει,