Fragment 136 (Voigt 150)

‘Socrates blames Xanthippe for lamenting his death, as Sappho blames her daughter—

Οὐ γαρ θέμις ἐν μουσοπόλων οἰκίᾳ θρήνον εἶναι· οὐκ ἄμμι πρέπει τάδε.

For lamentation may not be in a poet’s house: such things befit not us.’

In the home of the Muses ’tis bootless to mourn.
— Frederick Tennyson.