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Quoted by Hephaestion, Attilius Fortunatianus, and Servius as an example of the choriambic tetrameter used by Sappho.

Quoted by Attilius, about the fifth century A.D.

Gentle Adonis is dying, O Cythera; what shall we do? Beat your breasts, O maidens, and rend your garments.

Gentle Adonis wounded lies, dying, dying.

What message, O Cythera, dost thou send?

Beat, beat your white breasts, O ye weeping maidens,

And in wild grief your mourning garments rend.