Fragment 71
]μισσε Μίκα
]ελα[ . . ]ἀ̣λ̣λά σ’ ἔγωὐκ ἐάσω
]ν̣ φιλότ[ατ’] ἤλεο Πενθιλήαν̣[
4.]δα κα̣[κό]τροπ’, ἄμμα[
] μέλ̣[ος] τι γλύκερον .[
]α μελλιχόφων[ος
]δει, λίγυραι δ’ ἄη[ται
8.] δροσ[ό]εσσα[
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Comments
Book IV
Meter: acephalus hipponactean with a double choriambic expansion (^hipp2c)
× – ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – – (in distichs)
Texts: Campbell =Voigt, with Campbell’s reconstruction in v.7 and Voigt’s reconstruction in v. 6
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: P. Oxy. 1787 fr. 6 + eiusdem pap. fr. (Ox. Pap. xxi 135)
NB: Fragments 60-86 all come from P. Oxy. 1787.