It is midnight
And time slips by;
But on my couch alone I lie.
J. A. Symonds, 1883.
Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre.
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Πλήρης μὲν ἐφαίνετ' ἀ σελάννα,
αἰ δ' ὡς περὶ βῶμον ἐστάθησαν.
The moon rose full, and the women stood as though around an altar.
Quoted by Hephaestion as an example of Praxilleian verses, i.e. such as the Sicyonian poetess Praxilla (about B.C. 450) wrote in the metre known as the Ionic a majore trimeter brachycatalectic. Blass thinks that the lines are part of the same poem as that to which the succeeding fragment belongs.