Fragment 88 (Voigt 135)
88 · Voigt 135Why, lovely swallow, daughter of Pandīon, [weary] me?
Τί με Πανδίονις ὦ ῎ραννα χελίδων;
From Hephaestion, who says Sappho wrote whole songs in this metre. Ὦ ῎ραννα is Is. Vossius’ emendation; ὠράνα is the ordinary reading, which Hesychius explains as perhaps an epithet of the swallow ‘dwelling under the roof.’
Ah, Procne, wherefore dost thou weary me?
Thus flitting out and flitting in ...
Tease not the air with this tumultuous wing.
— Michael Field, 1889.