150, Muse-attending

SAPPHO

(Lobel-Page 150 – Σαπφώ – English translation)

NOTE: Addressed to Sappho's daughter, according to Maximus of Tyre. Sappho refers to herself and her daughter as "Muse-attending" (lit. serving the Muses), i.e. artists, musicians.


For it isn't right in a Muse-attending house that

Lament takes place. It wouldn't beseem us here.