E le Cretesi con armonia sui piedi leggeri cominciarono

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)

Κρῆσσαί νύ ποτ’ ὦδ’ ἐμμελέως πόδεσσιν

Language: Aeolic Greek

Our translations: FRE

Κρῆσσαί νύ ποτ’ ὦδ’  ἐμμελέως πόδεσσιν
ὤρχηντ’ ἀπάλοισ’  ἀμφ’ ἐρόεντα βῶμον
πόας τέρεν ἄνθος  μάλακον μάτεισαι

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by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Willis Barnstone (b. 1927) , copyright © 1967 ; composed by Cindy McTee.
Also set in Italian (Italiano), adapted by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) ; composed by Luigi Dallapiccola.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.

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ENG English (Willis Barnstone) , copyright © 1967
ENG English (Henry Thornton Wharton)
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Salvatore Quasimodo)

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E le Cretesi con armonia sui piedi...

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the Aeolic Greek

Our translations: ENG

E le Cretesi con armonia sui piedi leggeri cominciarono,
Spensierate, a girare intorno all'ara
Sulla tenera erba appena nata.

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by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) [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)
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by Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 - 1975), "Piena splendeva la luna", from Cinque Frammenti di Saffo, no. 4

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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-29
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Word count: 19