"Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands Of dill, and with soft gentle hands Set the delicious leafage round your head. The Goddess and the happy Graces Love to look on flower-crown’d faces, But turn aside from the ungarlanded."
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Sappho, frag. qtd. by Athenaeus, xv, 674d. Tr. C. M. Bowra, OBGVT (1938), p. 207
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