Selection from Sappho’s Lyre (University of California Press, 1991). Translation copyright 2000 Diane Rayor; all rights reserved.
| Stele and my sirens and mournful urn, | |
| which holds the meager ashes belonging to Hades, | |
| tell those passing my tomb “farewell” | |
| (be they townsmen or from other places) | |
| 5 | and that this grave holds me, a bride. Say, too, |
| that my father called me Baukis and my family | |
| is from Tenos, so they may know, and that my friend | |
| Erinna on the tombstone engraved this epigram. |
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