Sappho
(from Fragments 98a, 98b)
A very great ornament
from my mother's prime--
hair wound with purple.
Ornaments indeed!
Bindings with spangles,
or hair like yellow torches?
Daughter, no sparkling tiaras.
Where would I find them
in exile?
A sort of cento-- Fragments 98a and b come from the same mutilated papyrus. Senryu, zappai...or Sapph-u?
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