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Text Authorship:

• by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 37 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958) ; composed by Hana Ajiashvili.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Mary Barnard (1909 - 2001) , no title, appears in Sappho: A New Translation, no. 61 ; composed by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist.
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