...r; Her virgin playmates from each lovely head Cut with sharp steel their locks, the strewments for the dead. These are only fragments; but of the single complete poem that remains to us from Sappho , I shall venture on a translation, which can claim only to be tolerably literal, and to keep, in some degree, to the Sapphic metre. Yet I am cheered by the remark of an old grammarian, Demetrius Ph...