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YBPIOY
Language: Greek (Ελληνικά) 
Ἔsti moi ploῦtos megas Sopu kaὶ 
xiphos kaὶ tὸ kalὸn laisēion, problēma chrōtos" 
toytῳ gὰr ἀrῶ, toytῳ therixō,
toytῳ pateō tὸn ἁdὺn oἶnon am’ ἀmpelō"
toytῳ despotas mnoias keklēmai.

toὶ dὲ mὴ tolmῶnt' ἔchein dory kaὶ 
xiphos kaὶ tὸ kalὸn laisēion, problēma chrōtos, 
pantes gony peptēῶtes ἁmὸn
.......pros > kyneonti me despotan
kaὶ megan basilῆa phōneontes

Confirmed with Walter George Headlam, A book of Greek verse, Publisher Cambridge, University Press, 1907, p.28


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