Reading Companion

Concordance of Fragment Numbers

Sappho’s fragments carry different numbers in different editions. Wharton follows the numbering of Theodor Bergk’s Poetae Lyrici Graeci (fourth edition, 1882). Modern editions and translations use the numbering of Edgar Lobel and Denys Page, Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta (1955), which Eva-Maria Voigt’s Sappho et Alcaeus (1971) keeps and extends: the poem numbered 2 by Wharton is 31 in Voigt.

Each match below was made by the Greek: Wharton’s Greek for the fragment was compared with the Greek printed under the modern numbers in three independent online texts (the Bibliotheca Augustana, inamidst.com and Poesia Latina), and a modern number is given only where at least two of them give it. 100 of 168 entries have one. The others are mostly single words that ancient grammarians quoted from Sappho, too short to match, or fragments the sources number differently.

Wharton (Bergk)	Voigt	Opening	Confirmed by
1	1	Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne, daughter of Zeus, weaver…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
2	31	That man seems to me peer of gods, who sits…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
3	34	The stars about the fair moon in their turn hide…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
4	2	And round about the [breeze] murmurs cool through apple-boughs, and…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
5	2	Come, goddess of Cyprus, and in golden cups serve nectar…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
6	35	Or Cyprus and Paphos, or Panormus [holds] thee.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
7, 8	40	But for thee will I [lead] to the altar [the…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
9	33	This lot may I win, golden-crowned Aphrodite.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
10	32	Who gave me their gifts and made me honoured.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
11	160	This will I now sing deftly to please my girl-friends.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
12	26	For they whom I benefit injure me most.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
13	16	But that which one desires I ...	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
14	41	To you, fair maids, my mind changes not.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
15	—	And this I feel in myself.
16	42	But their heart turned cold and they dropt their wings.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
17	37	According to my weeping: it and all care let buffeting…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
18	123	Me just now the golden-sandalled Dawn ...	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
19	39	A broidered strap of fair Lydian work covered her feet.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
20	152	Shot with a thousand hues.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
21	129,1	Me thou forgettest.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
22	129, 2	Or lovest another more than me.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
23	—	Ye are nought to me.
24	—	While ye will.
25	36	I yearn and seek ...	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
26	—	O Muse of the golden throne, raise that strain which…
27	158	When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
28	137	Hadst thou felt desire for things good or noble, and…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
29	138	Stand face to face, friend ... and unveil the grace…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
30	143	And golden pulse grew on the shores.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
31	142	Leto and Niobe were friends full dear.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
32	147	Men I think will remember us even hereafter.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
33	49	I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
34	49	A slight and ill-favoured child didst thou seem to me.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
35	i.a. 5,2	Foolish woman, pride not thyself on a ring.	Augustana and inamidst
36	51	I know not what to do; my mind is divided.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
37	52	I do not think to touch the sky with my…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
38	—	And I flutter like a child after her mother.
39	136	Spring’s messenger, the sweet-voiced nightingale.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
40	130	Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature,…	inamidst and Poesia Latina
41	130	But to thee, Atthis, the thought of me is hateful;…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
42	47	Now Eros shakes my soul, a wind on the mountain…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
43	149	When all night long [sleep] holds their [eyes].	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
44	101	And purple napkins for thy lap ... (even these wilt…	Augustana and Poesia Latina
45	118	Come now, divine shell, become vocal for me.	Augustana and inamidst
46	94	And tender woven garlands round tender neck	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
47	178	Fonder of maids than Gello.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
48	144	Of Gorgo full weary.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
49	—	Of a proud (or perfumed, or flowery) palace.
50	—	But I upon a soft cushion dispose my limbs.
51	141	And there the bowl of ambrosia was mixed, and Hermes…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
52	—	The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight,…
53	154	The moon rose full, and the women stood as though…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
54	i.a.16	Thus at times with tender feet the Cretan women dance…	Augustana and inamidst
55	—	Then delicately in thick robe I sprang.
56	166	Leda they say once found an egg hidden under hyacinth-blossoms.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
57	151	And dark-eyed Sleep, child of Night.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
57A	—	Aphrodite’s handmaid bright as gold.
58	133	Andromeda has a fair requital.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
59	133	Sappho, why [celebrate] blissful Aphrodite?	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
60	128	Come now, delicate Graces and fair-haired Muses.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
61	153	A sweet-voiced maiden.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
62	140?	Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea; what shall we do? Beat…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
63	—	Ah for Adonis!
64	54	Coming from heaven wearing a purple mantle.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
65	53	Come, rosy-armed pure Graces, daughters of Zeus.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
66	—	But Ares says he would drag Hephaestus by force.
67	44	Many thousand cups thou drainest.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
68	55	But thou shalt ever lie dead, nor shall there be…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
69	56	No one maiden I think shall at any time see…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
70	57	What country girl bewitches thy heart, who knows not how…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
71	—	I taught Hero of Gyara, the swift runner.
72	120	I am not of a malignant nature, but have a…	Augustana and Poesia Latina
73	—	But charming [maidens] plaited garlands.
74	159	Thou and my servant Love.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
75	121	But if thou lovest us, choose another and a younger…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
76	82	Mnasidica is more shapely than the tender Gyrinno.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
77	91	Scornfuler than thee, Eranna, have I nowhere found.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
78	81b	Do thou, Dica, set garlands round thy lovely hair, twining…	Augustana and Poesia Latina
79	58	I love delicacy, and for me Love has the sun’s…	Augustana and Poesia Latina
80	—	And down I set the cushion.
81	148	Wealth without thee, Worth, is no safe neighbour [but the…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
82	124	And thou thyself, Calliope.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
83	126	Sleep thou in the bosom of thy tender girlfriend.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
84	127	Hither now, Muses, leaving golden ...	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
85	132	I have a fair daughter with a form like a…	Augustana and Poesia Latina
86	155	All joy to thee, daughter of Polyanax.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
87	134	In a dream I spake with the daughter of Cyprus.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
88	135	Why, lovely swallow, daughter of Pandīon, [weary] me?	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
89	100	She wrapped herself well in delicate hairy ...	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
90	102	Sweet Mother, I cannot weave my web, broken as I…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
91	111	Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. (Hymenaeus!) Like Ares comes the…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
92	106	Towering, as the Lesbian singer towers among men of other…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
93	105a	As the sweet-apple blushes on the end of the bough,…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
94	105b	As on the hills the shepherds trample the hyacinth under…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
95	104a	Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
96	Alcaeus 304	I shall be ever maiden.	Augustana and inamidst
97	109	We will give, says the father ...	inamidst and Poesia Latina
98	110b	To the doorkeeper feet seven fathoms long, and sandals of…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
99	—	Happy bridegroom, now is thy wedding come to thy desire,…
100	—	And a soft [paleness] is spread over the lovely face.
101	50	He who is fair to look upon is [good], and…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
102	107	Do I still long for maidenhood?	Augustana and Poesia Latina
103	117	The bride [comes] rejoicing; let the bridegroom rejoice.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
104	115	Whereunto may I well liken thee, dear bridegroom? To a…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
105	116	Hail, bride! noble bridegroom, all hail!	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
106	113	For there was no other girl, O bridegroom, like her.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
107, 108	—	Sing Hymenaeus! Ah for Adonis!
109	114	A. Maidenhood, maidenhood, whither art thou gone away from me?…	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
110	—	Fool, faint not thou in thy strong heart.
111	165	To himself he seems ...	Augustana and Poesia Latina
112	167	Much whiter than an egg.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
113	146	Neither honey nor bee for me.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
114	—	Stir not the shingle.
115	—	Thou burnest us.
116	119	A napkin dripping.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
117	164	She called him her son.	Augustana and Poesia Latina
118	—	Maidens, dumb as I am, I speak thus, if any…
119	—	This is the dust of Timas, whom Persephone’s dark chamber…
120	—	Over the fisherman Pelagon his father Meniscus set weel and…
121	122	Reported by Athenaeus	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
122, 123	156	Far sweeter of tone than harp, more golden than gold.	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
124	—	Reported by Demetrius
125	—	Reported by Maximus Tyrius
126	—	My darling.
127	—	Reported by Aristides
128	—	Reported by Pollux
129	—	Reported by Philostratus
130	—	Reported by Libanius the rhetorician
131	—	Reported by Strabo
132	—	Reported by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius
133	104b	Reported by Himerius	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
134	—	Reported by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius
135	—	Reported by the Scholiast on Hesiod
136	150	Reported by Maximus Tyrius	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
137	—	Reported by Aristotle
138	—	Reported by Athenaeus
139	—	Reported by Athenaeus
140	—	Reported by Palaephătus
141	—	Reported by Wharton
142	—	Reported by Pausanias
143	—	Reported by Aulus Gellius
144	—	Reported by Servius
145	—	Reported by Servius
146	—	Reported by Philostratus
147	—	Reported by Himerius
148	—	Reported by Eustathius
149	—	Reported by the Lexicon Seguerianum
150	—	Reported by the Etymologicum Magnum
151	—	Reported by the Etymologicum Magnum
152	—	Reported by Apollonius
153	—	Reported by the Etymologicum Magnum
154	—	Reported by Athenaeus
155	—	Reported by Pollux
156	—	Reported by Phrynĭchus the grammarian
157	—	Reported by Hesychius
158	—	Reported by a Parisian MS. edited by Cramer
159	—	Reported by a Scholiast on Homer
160	—	Reported by Eustathius
161	—	Reported by Choeroboscus
162	—	Reported by Joannes Alexandrinus
163	—	Reported by an unknown author
164	—	Reported by a treatise on grammar edited by Cramer
165	—	Reported by Phrynichus
166	—	Reported by a Scholiast on Homer
167	—	Reported by Photius
168	162	Reported by the Etymologicum Magnum	Augustana and inamidst and Poesia Latina
169	—	Reported by Orion of Thebes
170	—	Reported by Pollux