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Sappho: Fragments (Addenda)

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This short set gathers a few additional papyrus scraps of Sappho of Lesbos, the lyric poet active around 600 BC. They are printed as addenda after the main run of her numbered fragments. They appear here as fr. 214 (1)–(5), where one scrap preserves the name Archeanassa, and a combination of frr. 29(25) and 24a, which includes the line "for we too in our youth did these things."

The texts are badly broken, and mostly only single words or half-lines can be read. They matter as evidence of how Sappho's poetry has been pieced back together from torn papyrus, and each scrap adds names, words or phrases to the small body of her work that survives.

About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Sappho fr. 214 (1)–(5); fr. 29(25)+24a). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).

Ancient Greek · Lyric & Elegy
Fragments (Addenda)
Sappho · every word parsed
214(1)
. . . / [ ]προλ[ [ ]φερην[ [ ].ιδεθελ[ [Ἀρ]χεάνασσα[ / [ ]δήποτʼ ὀνα[ [ ]νασαμέν[ [ ]εν ἐπηρατ[ [ ]ν[ . . .
214(2)
. . . / []..[ [].αι’δεκό.[ [].ςπελ[.].[ [ ].[ / . . .
214(3)
. . . / [ ]..[].[ [ ]επʼ ισ[ []ανεπ[ [ ].ν.[ / [ ].[ . . .
214(4)
. . . / [ ]α.[ [ ἔ]κλυον ε[ [ Κ]ρανιναδες δ[ [πα]ρθενικαις.[ / [ ].μ[ [ ].[ . . .
214(5)
. . . / [ ]οη[ []νλ[ [ ]κα[ [ ]λυ.[ / [ ]τ[ []μελ[ . . .
29(25)+24a
[ ].[ ]ανάγα[ [ ].[ ]εμνάσεσθʼ ἀ[ κ]αὶ γὰρ ἄμμες ἐν νεο[ ταῦτʼ ἐπόημμεν. / πόλλ[α μ]ὲν γὰρ καὶ κα[ ]…η.[ ]μεν, πόλι[ .]μμε[.]ο[.]είαισδ[ .]..[.]..[
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Liddell, Scott & Jones (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: odyCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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