Μελλίχιος δ' ἐπ' ἰμέρτῳ κέχυται προσώπῳ.
And a soft [paleness] is spread over the lovely face.
In the National Library of Madrid there is a MS. of an epithalamium by Choricius, a rhetorician of Gaza, who flourished about 520 A.D., in which the lamented Ch. Graux (Revue de Philologie, 1880, p. 81) found a quotation from Sappho which is partly identical with this fragment preserved by Hephaestion. H. Weil thus attempts to restore the passage:—
Σοὶ χάριεν μὲν εἶδος, ὄππατα δ'
μέλλιχρ', ἔρος δ' ἐπ' ἰμέρτῳ
κέχυται προσώπῳ·