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c. 590 BC / Lesbos

Lest We Forget

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You may forget but
Let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us



I have no complaint

Prosperity that
the golden Muses
gave me was no
delusion: dead, I
won’t be forgotten.

©1985 by the Regents of the University of California. Used with permission of University of California Press.

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Sappho, two poem fragments. Regarded by Plato as the “Tenth Muse,” Sappho composed much of her poetry in the form of choral songs meant to be performed with a lyre. Only one of her extant poems, an ode to Aphrodite, is complete, running a mere twenty-eight lines. The next-longest intact fragment is sixteen lines.

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us.
Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC
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