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PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS

First Line: THIS SWEET WORK IS ERINNA'S: NO GREAT SUM
Last Line: NOT QUICKLY, DEATH, WHOSE NAME HAD EQUALLED HERS?
Subject(s): ERINNA (4TH CENTURY B.C.);
THIS sweet work is Erinna's: no great sum --
It is a girl's of only nineteen years --
But strong as many another's. Hadst thou come
Not quickly, Death, whose name had equalled hers?



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