Sappho’s poem on old age, in ancient Greek (Fragment 58, the Tithonus poem, or New Sappho from 2004)

First published at 14:02 UTC on August 7th, 2022.
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This poem was restored less than twenty years ago, after the discovery of new fragments of papyrus. It is one of the vanishingly few complete poems of Sappho.

My translation is free to copy for any and all purposes under CC-BY-4.0 (attribution only…

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