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malthaussen

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5. Neither did I.:)

Reply to Rowdyboy (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 05:44 PM

Jan 2014

But when I tried to quote the last line with brackets, I learned it.

I wonder why the line is in brackets in the translation, though. Often that means an interpolation. Since that line is pretty critical to the sense of the stanza, I wonder if Sappho used parentheses in the original. Did the Lesbian dialect even *have* parentheses?

-- Mal

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