Saturday, August 4, 2012

Can Love be Bad?

Ερος δαὖτέ μ' ὀ λυσιμέλης δόνει,
γλυκύπικρον ἀμάχανον ὄρπετον.

Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.
- Sappho of Lesbos (Fragment 40)

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