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57: Come now gentle Graces, and fair-haired Muses.
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57: Come now gentle Graces, and fair-haired Muses.

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Δεῦτέ νυν ἄβραι Χάριτεσ, καλλίκομοί τε Μοῖσαι. [transcription]

Come now gentle Graces, and fair-haired Muses.

Quoted by Hepaestion, Attilius Fortunatianus, and Servius as an example of the choriambic tetrameter used by Sappho.

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