Дай, златовенечная Афродита

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)

. . ἐστιν τὰ τῆς εὐχῆς ἐπιρρήματα...

Language: Aeolic Greek

Our translations: FRE

 . . ἐστιν τὰ τῆς εὐχῆς ἐπιρρήματα παραστατικά,
αἴθ᾿ ἔγω, χρυσοστέφαν᾿ Ἀφρόδιτα,
τόνδε τὸν πάλον λαχοίην

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by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 33 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
RUS Russian (Русский) (Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov) , no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej)

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Дай, златовенечная Афродита

Language: Russian (Русский) after the Aeolic Greek

Дай, златовенечная Афродита, 
По сердцу мне вынуть желанный жребий!

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by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 33
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by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Моления Афродите", 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Греческие песни на тексты из Сафо в переводе Вяч. Иванова (Grecheskije pesni na teksty iz Safo, v perevode Vjacheslava Ivanova), no. 6, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo )
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