Attributed to Plato
Laïs' Mirror
I, Laïs, who once smiled so proud
upon my lovers' eager crowd,
To Aphrodite dedicate
this mirror I have come to hate...
For what it tells I dare not know
and what I was it cannot show.
from "Sweet-voiced Sappho. Poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek Authors translated into English Verse by Theodore Stephanides", 2015)
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| пятница, 02 марта 2018