Love
Satiric skit on a gigantic hall-porter (Fragment 98) (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
What a door-keeper! O fit theme for song!
A very Titan—feet seven fathoms long!
To make his sandals five bulls' hides were brought,
And cobblers seven the mighty fabric wrought.
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Codex Note
Way weaves several fragments in the same metre into one connected poem (his preface); the joins are his.
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MLA
Sappho. “Satiric skit on a gigantic hall-porter (Fragment 98) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/158/.
Chicago
Sappho. “Satiric skit on a gigantic hall-porter (Fragment 98) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/158/.
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