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Βρενθείω βασιληΐω.

Of a proud (or perfumed, or flowery) palace.

Athenaeus says Sappho here mentions the 'royal' and the 'brentheian' unguent together, as if they were one and the same thing; but the reading is very uncertain.

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Ἔγω δ' ἐπὶ μαλθάκαν

τύλαν σπολέω μέλεα.

But I upon a soft cushion dispose my limbs.

From Herodian.

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