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"Dapple-throned Aphrodite, eternal daughter of God, snare-knitter!"
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Mary Ethel Barnard was an American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator. She is known for her elegant rendering of the works of Sappho, a translation which has never gone out of print.
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