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This from Strabo, early first century A.D. Panormos was a frequent name, and does not refer to Palermo, which was not founded in Sappho’s time.

But for thee I will [bring] to the altar [the young] of a white goat and add a libation for thee. Cited by Apollonius of Alexandria about A.D. 140. The reading is uncertain.

From Apollonius. Sappho invented many beautiful epithets to apply to Aphrodite, and this fragment contains one of them.