An apparent captatio benevolentiæ (Sappho?)

Today I bring you a Sapphic stanza, quoted by Athenaeus as falsely attributed to Sappho (he says «ὅτι δὲ οὔκ ἐστι Σαπφοῦς τοῦτο τὸ ᾆσμα παντί που δῆλον», i.e. «that this poem is not by Sappho is clear to everyone»), reported by Bergk in his Sappho edition, not reported by Edmonds in his Sappho, and not reported by Campbell as either Sappho, Alcaeus, or "Sappho or Alcaeus", so Campbell appears to think this thing is not by any of them two. In fact, he has it as a testimonium for Sappho, that is, something by someone else that tells us something about Sappho.
Well, whatever, I had no idea of that back in the days, so I translated it. I even aeolized it, because, well, "it is Sappho, so we aeolize". It is Bergk 30, and I will leave the critical note to him. The Athenaeus quote can be found at Greek Wikisource, it is book XIII (βίβλον ιγʹ) of Athenaeus's Δειπνοσοφισταί (Deipnosophistæ, Sophists at Dinner).
The meter is rendered in the usual way, besides Italian having a different rhyme scheme, and indeed I have two Italian versions, the better one (B) having a different rhyme scheme, and the worse one (A – same rhyme word in all three hendecasyllabics, ambiguity of "nobile" and "dalle donne d'oro" seeming to be referred to the singer as opposed to the land of Teos) with the usual rhyme scheme. English also uses that altered rhyme scheme. This seems to have been particularly hard to translate, in all languages. Latin had trouble with composed adjectives ("pretty-womaned", "gold-throned"). I don't remember what the note said about the other languages and don't feel like looking again. Let's just get to the translations.
About those:

1. Italian A was made in bed between 15/8/10 and 16/8/10, as per diary, with the option «Bene cantava» for the last line;
2. Romagnolo was done right after Italian A; it remained hidden in the diary until I uncovered it in 2021 or 2022; it's pretty terrible, and has «dòni bël» which, as noted by the diary, is ungrammatical and should read "bëli" for gender agreement; the <> are in the diary, probably marking the places I «forsan mutai» (maybe changed) as I wrote it down the next morning;
3. Italian B is from the next morning, so 16/8/10, with «Musa trono d'oro» for «O Musa trono d'or» and «d'» unelided in l. 3; l. 1 was fixed upon copying it into the 16/8/10 file; l. 3 is fixed in the 5/1/11 file, thus between then and 13/11/10;
4. The English version appears in blog form in the 16/8/10 file;
5. Ditto for the Latin, meaning both were done between 26/7 and 16/8/10.

One last thing though: the title of this post comes from my interpretation of this stanza as a captatio benevolentiæ, i.e. a remembrance of a nice past event to propitiate the goddess.

Greek Κῆνον, ὦ χρυσόθρονε Μοῖσ', ἔνισπες ὔμνον, ἐκ τᾶς καλλιγύναικος ἔσθλας Τήιος χώρας ὂν ἄειδε τέρπνως πρέσβυς ἄγαυος. Italian (A) Cantasti l’inno,͜ o Musa trono d’oro, Che vecchio͜ illustre della terra d’oro Di Te͜o, nobile, dalle donne d’oro Dolce cantava. Italian B O Musa trono d’or, l’inno cantasti Ch’illustre vecchio di Te͜o ascoltasti, Terra d’ belle donne, nobil, cantare E dilettare.

Latin A͞urĕī thrŏnī cĕcĭnīst’ ĕ’ hȳmnŭm Mūsă, quēm sĕnēxquĕ cănēbăt īllā Nōbĭlī pūlchrīsquĕ mŭli͞erĭbūs Te͞o Ūt’quĕ plăcēntĕr. Romagnolo O Musa 'd 'e trõ d’ör, t cantèst ch''e quël, Ch’l’inno, ch' ch''e vëc illustre <'d là 'd ch''e> bël Paéṣ <nòbile 'd Teo>, 'd al dòni bël, <Piaṣènd> cãntéva. English O golden-thronèd Muse, that hymn you sang Which that old noble man from Teo sang Enjoyably, fro’ th’ noble land which hosts Girl-beauty’s hosts.

References

• Grenfell and Hunt on Oxyrhynchus papyri;
• Edmonds' edition of Sappho;
• Campbell's edition of Sappho;
• Bergk's edition of Sappho;
• Diehls' Supplementum Lyricum;
• Greek Wikisource;
• Other Greek Wikisource link;
• Wharton's edition of Sappho;
• SaffoComm1.doc;
• safopoemas;
• S.B. Palmer's The Complete Poems Of Sappho;
• Bibliotheca Augustana;
• Carson's edition of Sappho (not available online).

Note: these are all the references I ever used for Sappho as of now. I may not have used all of these in the present post.