Note 14 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
Reading edition
He has here left four lines untranslated, which are thus rendered in the MS.:
My ruined brother trades from shore to shore, And gains as basely as he lost before: Me too he hates, advised by me in vain, So fatal 'tis to be sincere and plain.
Of the last couplet the MS. contains a second version:
He hates his sister for a sister's care, So unsuccessful 'tis to be sincere.