From Plotius, about the fifth or sixth century A.D., to show the metre of Sappho's hymeneal odes. The text is corrupt; the first verse is thus emended by Bergk, the second by Scaliger. Cf. fr. [63].
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A. Παρθενία, παρθενία, ποῖ με λίποισ' ἀποίχῃ;
B. Οὐκέτι ἥξω πρὸς σε, οὐκέτι ἥξω.
A. Maidenhood, maidenhood, whither art thou gone away from me?
B. Never again will I come to thee, never again.
'Sweet Rose of May, sweet Rose of May,
Whither, ah whither fled away?'
'What's gone no time can e'er restore—
I come no more, I come no more.'