Fragment 107, 108
107, 108Sing Hymenaeus!
Ah for Adonis!
Ἐσπετ’ ᾿Υμήναον.
Ὦ τὸν Ἀδώνιον.
From Plotius, about the fifth or sixth century A.D., to show the metre of Sappho’s hymeneal odes. The text is corrupt; the first verse is thus emended by Bergk, the second by Scaliger. Cf. fr. 63.