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"A beautiful girl is mine, her form like that
of golden flowers, beloved Kleis,
for whom not even all Lydia would I take, or lovely...."

"Kleis has traditionally been taken to be Sappho's daughter..."

Ha ha, 19th century prudes trying to de-gay Sappho. I mean, I have no children, but I am p. sure that I would not talk about them that way.

Also, Campbell's Greek Lyric Poetry doesn't print the second stanza of this: Once again Love drives me on, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

But to you, Atthis, the thought of me has grown
hateful, and you fly off to Andromeda.

And IDK, maybe it wasn't found yet. But I'm pretty sure you can also attribute that to prudery.