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From Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Maidenhood, maidenhood, whither art thou gone from me?

Never, O, never again, shall I return to thee.

Quoted by Demetrius, to show the beauty of Sappho’s style, and her successful use of repetition.

Quoted by Apollonius to show the use of in Aeolic Greek.