Fragment 102
⊗ γλύκηα μᾶτερ, οὔτοι δύναμαι κρέκην τὸν ἴστον
πόθῳ δάμεισα παῖδος βραδίναν δι’ Ἀφροδίταν.
Page 100
Text and Commentary
Source: https://digitalsappho.org/fragments/fr102/
Comments
Book VII
There are no poems identified as belonging to Book VI. This is the only poem known to belong to Book VII.
Meter:
ᴗ – ᴗ – | ᴗ – – ᴗ | ᴗ – ᴗ – | ᴗ – –
Texts: Campbell = Voigt
Campbell, David A. 1982. Greek Lyric, Vol. I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Voigt, Eva-Maria, ed. 1971. Sappho et Alcaeus. Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep.
Source: Hephaestion, Handbook on Metres (trans. Campbell 127):
"Common also is the antispastic tetrameter catalectic which has only its second unit antispastic, a metre in which Sappho wrote songs at the end of (or 'in') her seventh book."
NB: ⊗ indicates the beginning or end of a new poem.