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Sappho (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Doricha, long ago thy bones are dust, and the ribbon of thy hair and the raiment scented with unguents, wherein once wrapping lovely Charaxus round thou didst cling to him carousing into dawn; but the white leaves of the dear ode of Sappho remain yet and shall remain speaking thy blessed name, which Naucratis shall keep here so long as a sea-going ship shall come to the lagoons of Nile.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Posidippus. “Sappho (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/posidippus/17/.
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Posidippus. “Sappho (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/posidippus/17/.
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