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Sappho 47.1–2

Sappho 47 (Campbell) — love as a wind on the mountain oaks. Lobel's reconstruction of the paraphrase in Maximus of Tyre xviii.9.1. · 3 lines

1–2Ἔρος δ᾽ ἐτίναξέ μοι φρένας,
And Love shook my wits,
2ὠς ἄνεμος κὰτ ὄρος δρύσιν ἐμπέτων.
like a wind falling on oaks down the mountain.