Fragment 65 (Voigt 53)
65 · Voigt 53Come, rosy-armed pure Graces, daughters of Zeus.
Βροδοπάχεες ἄγναι Χάριτες, δεῦτε Δίος κόραι.
Theocritus’ Idyl 28, On a Distaff, according to the argument prefixed to it, was written in the dialect and metre of this fragment. And Philostrătus, about 220 A.D., says ‘Sappho loves the rose, and always crowns it with some praise, likening to it the beauty of her maidens; she likens it also to the arms of the Graces, when she describes their elbows bare.’ Cf. fr. 146.