Tuesday, 6 May 2025

When the channel goes beyond translations: metered introductions and tunes

So, between blog and channel, Sappho has brought me a bunch of work. In particular, the videos have required a lot of things that are musics or, technically, poetry, since they are metered. I want to gather all that stuff here, for archival purposes, and to avoid losing stuff to scattering across files. There are other things that belong here and are not Sappho-related, whence the more generic title

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 3;
Intro for the translations episode for Gongyla;
Intro for the translations episode for To the Nereids;
Old titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 4;
Intro for the translations episode for Arignota;
Intro for the Catullus-Sappho crossover;
Tune for "Mystery Gongyla";
Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Bergk-Gorini version;;
Tune for "Don't move the gravel";
Tune for the opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses (only half a line done so far);
Tune for "The father says «We shall give»";
Tune for "Idyll with Aphrodite";
Tune for "Like a child";
Tune for "The moon has set" (Hephaestion and Reier-Kovacs versions);
Tune for "Gongyla";
Tune for "To Irene";
Titles for Chôka de no Saffō episode 1 (only fr. 3 dealt with);
Tune for the Alcaeus fragment on Helen;
Final incipit for the Arignota fragment;
New titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 4;
Tune for the Edmonds version of "To die is an ill";
Tune for my version of "To die is an ill";
Tune for "On Kleis";
Tune for "Ode to a beautiful woman" aka "Comparing you to blonde Helen";
Tune for "I loved you", single line;
Tune for "I loved you", three-line thing (one line done);
Tune for "Dripping cloth";
Tune for "Where was Aphrodite born?";
Tune for "Cretan women";
Title for "U giuramentu ṙi Artemidi" (Saffu in Siçilianu ep. 10);
Tune for the spurious line of the Ostrakon Florentinum;
Tune for "Plucking the strings";
Tune for "Night-long sleep";
Tune for "To Apollo";
Tune for "For these friends of mine";
Opening for the Chôka de no Saffō series;
Opening for crossovers of the Chôka de no Saffō series with the Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία one;
Opening for the Saffo auf Deutscher Sprache series;
Opening for the Saffo in Rumãgnöl series;
Opening for crossovers of the previous two series;
Two openings for crossovers of the Safo en Español and Ψάπφω στη Νεοελληνική series;
Opening for the Mick Gorro and the Classics series;
Opening for the Poetry after the Classics series;
Opening for crossovers of the Mick Gorro and the Classics, Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία, and Saffu in Siçilianu series;
Opening for crossovers of the Mick Gorro and the Classics and Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος series;
Opening for the Katōitaliṓtika series;
Two openings for the A lifetime of translations series;
Opening for the Beginner Badslation Revies series;
Opening for the Badslation Reviews series;
Opening for the Non-Rhythmic Reviews series (which has been canceled);
Opening for the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος series;
Opening for crossovers of the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος and Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία series;
Opening for crossovers of the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος, Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία, Hànyǔ shígē de Sāfú, and Sappho auf Deutscher Sprache series;
Two openings for the Hànyǔ shígē de Sāfú series;
Opening for the canceled Safo en Castellano video;
Opening for the Saffu in Siçilianu series;
Opening for episodes of the Saffu in Siçilianu series with English translations;
Opening for episodes of the Saffu in Siçilianu series with Latin translations;
Opening for the Saffó a Magyar nyelvben and Sapphō linguā Latīnā all-crossover series;
Opening for the Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία series;
Tune for the "fragments cover";
Tune for the "fragments cover", voice 2;
Tune for the "fragments cover", voice 3;
Tune for the "fragments cover", controcanto;
Opening for crossovers of the Saffo in Rumãgnöl and Ψάπφω στη Νεοελληνική series;
Opening for the Saffo in Briansoeu e Bergamasch series;
Opening for the Saffo in Piemuntéis e Zeneise series;
Two possible openings for the Saffo in Triestin e Furlan series;
Opening for the Saffo in Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese series;
Opening for the Saffo in Swahili-Zulu-Lingala series;
Tune for "But you have forgotten me" (LP 129(a));
Tune for "I truly wish I were dead" (LP 94);
Tune for "A desire to die possesses me" (LP 95);
Opening for the Sappho Direct Tradition series;
Opening for the Sappho in English and AAVE series;
Tune for "Ye cowered" (LP 62+);
Tune for "O Dream" (LP 63+);
Tune for "About her exile" (LP 68+70+);
Tune for "We played" (LP 68b+69);
Tune for "To Mika" (LP 71+);
Tune for "Against Andromeda" (LP 60+65+67a+86+);
Intro for the translations episode for "To Mika";
Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 7;
Tune for "No lament is allowed", Tedeschi version (LP 150);
Tune for "He who's fair" (LP 50);
Tune for "To Dika" (LP 81(b));
Tune for "The oath of Artemis" (LP Alc. 304);
Book-4 meter goodbye;
Tune for "Money without virtue" (LP 148);;
Tune for "I have a gentle mind" (LP 120);;
Tune for "I dare not touch the sky" (LP 52);;
Tune for "I don't believe anyone" (LP 56);;
Tune for "Chickpeas", non-barbarous-meter High School (LP 143);
Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 8;
Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 9;
Tune for "A desire to die possesses me" Edmonds version (LP 95);;
Tune for "About Leda" Edmonds version (LP 166);;
Tune for "Woe for Adonis" (LP 168);;
Tune for "Handmaid of Aphrodite" (LP inc .23);;
Tune for "Handmaid of Aphrodite" Edmonds version (LP inc .23);;
Tune for "Cytherea, Adonis is dying" (LP 140(a));;
Intro for the translations episode for "A desire to die possesses me" (aka "Gongyla 2");
Phalecean hendecasyllabic goodbye;
Opening for the Sappho ob Doge Lesbos series;
Intro for the translations episode for "I really wish I were dead" (aka "Tethnaken");
Tethnaken-meter goodbye;
Line introducing to alternate tercet in Tethnaken;
Line with a similar purpose but for Saffu in Siçilianu;
Tethnaken-meter goodnight;
Iambic-trimeter "alternate version" line;
Tune for "One maidenhood I had" (LP 93);;
Tune for "Appear for us" (LP 92);;
Tune for "To her mother" (LP 9+);;
Tune for "On wounds" (LP 37);;
Tune for "Fairest of all stars" (LP 104(b));;
Tune for "That hymn, o Muse" (C. test. 8);;
Tune for "If only (prayer)" (LP 33);;
Tune for "Hither o Graces" (LP 128);;
Tune for "Rosy-armed Graces" (LP 53);;
Tune for "Hither again o Muses" (LP 127);;
Tune for "To Calliope" (LP 124);;
Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), my version;;
Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Voigt version;;
Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Voigt-Gorini version;;
Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Edmonds version;;
Tune for "Stand before me" (LP 138), my version;;
Tune for "You came" (LP 48+), my version 1;;
Tune for "You came" (LP 48+), Edmonds version;;
Tune for "On wounds, joined" (LP 36+37);;
Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 13;
Tune for "Stand before me" (LP 138), my revised version;;
gl2d goodbye;

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 3

Fr. 1: The stars and the moon

Αστερες μεν αμφι καλαν σελανναν,
Pulchrulam stellae prope lunam; esti a
Prima traduzziòni me 'n Siçilianu:
I stiðði e a luna.

Fr. 2a: To Arignota

Carmen ad Arignotam, αεισμ' ες Α-
ριγνωταν, puisia pi Ari-
gnota cantu, canam, προς υμμ' αεισω.

Fr. 2a alternate start

῎Υμμιν ἄλλαν ἄρχαν νυν ἀείσ' ἔγω
N'autřu inìzziu vi cantu mo',
Aljum͜ exordium incinam͜ ipse vōbīs

Fr. 2b: To Atthis

Νυν προς Ατθιδ' αεισμα, carmen ad At-
thida, u cantu pi Attide,
Ein Gedicht für Atthis wird ich beginnen.

Just the start of the Greek and Sicilian and
Latin and the German, but then
The full fragment in English we'll br hearing.

Fr. 3

A biđđizza divina nun è pi nui,
Κάλλος ἄμμι θέων γε οὖ-
δεν, mortālibu' pulchrjor omni' dīvus.

Intro for the translations episode for Gongyla

Σάμερον Ψάπφως προφέρω πρὸς ὔμμε
"Γογγύλας πόημα". Γύναικα ποίαν
Ἐννέπει; Δύω γε κάλαις γύναικας
Ἔστι νόησθαι·

Γογγύλα κάλα κ' ἐρόεσσ' Ἄβανθις.
Καλλάβην δ' οὔκ ἐστιν· ἔχει γε πόλλα
Τρήματ' ἀ πάπυρος. Ἐγω δὲ τρὶς νῦν
῎Υμμιν ἀείσω.

Τρὶς μετέφρασ' αὖτο τρίσιν τρόποισιν,
Τῷ δὲ πρώτ' ἔγω μελαοιδίαν γε
Πὰρ δέδωκα, Ἰταλίκᾳ τε Λεσβί-
κᾳ νυν ἀείσω.

Πρῶτα ὠς τ' ἤεισεν ό Χατζιδάκης,
Κὰτ τὸν Ἔδμονδζ δεύτερα, πρὸς δ' Ἄβανθιν
Τᾷ τελεύτᾳ. Χαίρετε πάντες ὔμμες
Τᾷ ἀκόᾳ νῦν!

Oggi io di Saffo presento a voi
La poesia di Gongila. A quale donna
Si rivolge? Due son le candidate:
Gongila bella

Ed Abanti amabile. Nel papiro
Ci son tanti buchi, che non consenton
Di capire questo, così vi canto
Or tre versioni.

Tutte in Italiano le ho tradotte,
Una melodia ho poi dato a quella
Che per prima canto, e or vi canto testi
E traduzioni.

Una Khatzidakis l'ha musicata,
Una è d'Edmonds, l'ultima si rivolge
Ad Abanti. Auguro a tutti voi
Un buon ascolto!

Καὶ Τεδέσκιος λόγον ὔμμ' ἀείσω·
Δὶς μετέφρα' αὖτο. Anche di Tedeschi
La versione, con due mie traduzioni,
Ora vi canto.

Intro for the translations episode for To the Nereids

῎Υμμι πρὸς Νηρήϊδας αὖ προσεύχαν
Ψαπφίκαν σὺν εκδόσισιν γε πέντε
Προσφέρω, τὰν Ἰταλίκαν ἔγ' ἐς γλῶσ-
σαν μετά γ' ἔφρασ'.

Αὖτος αὔτᾳ καὶ μελαοιδίαν γὰρ
Προσδέδωκα, πέντακις ὔμμ' ἀείσω
Ἐν δύσιν γλώσσαισί γε. Χαίρετ' ὔμμες
Τᾷ ἀκόᾳ νῦν!

Oggi una preghiera per le Nereidi *
Vi presento, in cinque version, di Saffo,
Che per cinque volte ho tradotto in Ita-
liano io stesso.

Nella melodia che io le ho dato
Cinque volte in Greco ed in Italiano
Ve la canto. Auguro a tutti voi
Un buon ascolto!

*Probably better as «Or per le Nereïdi una preghiera».

Old titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 4

Fr. 1: Sappho 16 Thévenaz

Zoccu è ntô munnu a cchiù beđđa cosa?
Ἂ, τὸ κάλλιστόν γ' ἐπὶ γᾶς τί ἐστι;
Ψάπφικον ποίημα, 'a puisia ṙi Saffu
῎Υμμιν ἀείσω

Fr. 2: Ti prèju, Gongyla

Puisia pi Gongyla scritta 'i Saffu
Ψάπφικον ποίημ' ἐπὶ Γογγύλαν ϝὰν
Τὰν κάλαν, biððissima sò, vi cantu,
῎Υμμιν ἀείσω.

Fr. 3: Ode to a beautiful woman

Ἐς κάλαν γύναικα πόημα Σάπφως
Innu pi na fimmina beđđa 'i Saffu
Cumpletatu 'i Edmonds, τὸ κὰτ τὸν Ἔδμονδζ
῎Υμμιν ἀείσω.

Composed 1/3/25 14:10.

Fr. 4: Kleis

Supra a figghia Cleide παῖδ' ὐπὲρ Κλέϊν ϝὰν

Intro for the translations episode for Arignota

Σάμερον Ψάπφως ὔμμι φέρω δύω
Δὴ σπαράγματ' ἔγω, τὰ ἐς
Γλῶσσαν Ἰταλίκαν μετέφρασ' αὖτος.

Οὐ δύω, ἀλλ' ἴαν μελαοιδίαν
Ἄμφοιν ἔς γ' ἔδωκά, νυ δὲ
Ἄμφω σὲν μετάφρασισ' ὔμμ' ἀείσω.

Σὺν τρίσιν τρόποισ' ἐστι τὸ πρῶτο συμ-
πληρόεσθαι, δύ' εκδοκαις
Ἀείσω νυν ἔγ' ὔμμι. Χαιρετ' υμμες!

Oggi a voi io di Saffo presento due
Poesïe, che in Italian
Ho tradotto. Non due, ma una sola

Melodia per entrambi ho composto, ed or
Tutti e due ve li canterò,
Prima in Greco e poi in Italiano.

In due modi si può il primo completar,
Ed in entrambi tradotto l'ho,
E ora vado a cantarlo. Buon ascolto!

Intro for the Catullus-Sappho crossover

Σάμερον Ψάπφως προφέρω σπάραγμα
῎Υμμι, τ' ἐκμιμήσατο δὴ Κάτυλλος,
ΚἈγγλίκως καὶ Ἰταλίκως μετέφρασ'
Ἐκδόσεας δύ͜ω,

Λεσβίκως μετέφρασα τὰν Κατύλλω,
Καὶ πρὸς ὔμμ' ἄμφω γ' ἐθέλω ν' ἀείδεις
Ἐν μόνᾳ ἴᾳ μελαοιδίᾳ γε.
Χαίρετε πάντες!

Oggi io di Saffo presento a voi
Il frammento che da Catullo è stato
Imitato, ed ho tradotto entrambi
Questi due testi

In Inglese ed in Italiano, e quello
Di Catullo anche in Greco antico.
Ve li canto in unica melodia:
Un buon ascolto!

I to you today sing a Sappho fragment
And its imitation made by Catullus,
With my own translations of both to English
And to Italian,

And the one to Lesbian Aeolic Greek
Of the imitation. I have one tune
For both poems. I to you all now wish:
Have a good listen!

Afferō vōbīs hodiē͜ hocce carmen
Scriptum ā Sapphō, imitātus a͞utem
Quod Catullu'st, Ītalicē͜ Anglicēque
Ipse͜ ego vertī

Textum͜ utrumque, textum͜ equidem Catullī
Lesbicē vertī quoque, nunque ambō
Mūsicā ūnā canam. Audiendō
Gaudium͜ habētē!

Tune for "Mystery Gongyla"

This is me musicating a translation of the Gongyla poem found online which is impossible to match with the original, so I wanted to have it as a standalone song on LT. I made it two-voiced so one voice sings in Greek and one in Italian. I give you the score, then the usual history spoiler.

Note: recording-day (24/5) tweak to voice 2 not reflected in the score abouve, but is in the below, with an extra apparently 12/6/25 16:47 tweak:

Tune for "About the Cicada"

AA/CC F GA FE FG FF DC AA FF ABb CC G GG
Tenge pneumona woino, to gar astron peritelletai,
GG ABb AA G A FF D^D^ A F AA GG A Bb C^D^ C^ C^C^
ἀ δ' ὤρα χαλέπα, πάντα δὲ δίψαισ' ὐπὰ καύματος.

Tune for "Dearest offspring of Uranus and Gaia"

Here we start with a score containing the three versions of this, then the history has the messages containing those versions.

Tune for "Don't move the gravel"

AG ABb AA DC A
Μη κινη χεραδας

16/9/24 18:44.

Tune for the opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses

FF C Bb GG A Bb FF
In nova fert animus

27/9/24 13:52 23:05.

FF C Bb GG A G FF
In nova fert animus

31/12/24 12:50, not msg.

Tune for "The father says «We shall give»"

ABb A F DC A Bb AA
Dosomen esi pater

5/10/24 15:59.

Tune for "Idyll with Aphrodite"

Alternate beginning for new version:

CBb C GG ABb AA F C BbBb C AA FF
Δευρυ μ' εκ Κρήτας προφανηθ' εναυλον

28/9/25 12:27.

Tune for "Like a child"

Tune for "The moon has set" (Hephaestion and Reier-Kovacs versions)

Hephaestion version:

Reier-Kovacs version:

Tune for "Gongyla"

Tune for "To Irene"

Titles for Chôka de no Saffō episode 1

Only the third fragment in the episode has a title so far:

Έμοι δ' ετίναξεν Έρως φρένας
C AA F Bb AA G A FF C FF

15/2/25 20:13.

Wa ga kokoro yuru
CC AF CC BbC AA C AA

1/3/25 14:15.

Wa ga kokoro yuru Japanese title should have BbF for the ga, not AF

24/5/25 12:23.

Tune for the Alcaeus fragment on Helen

Final incipit for the Arignota fragment

So after finding out Σάρδεσιν was probably not Aeolic, I had to reintegrate the incipit of the fragment. I initially tried to use a form of a supposed πηλορόω or something like that that was supposed to give πηλόροισ' as a participle (it's actually a dative, πηλόροισιν < πήλορος = τηλουρός), then I gave up and went with πῆλ' ἄπεστιν. Here is the story:

Πηλοροῖ νῦν Ἀνακτορί' ἀ φίλα

13/2/25 15:06.

Λέπταν ϝὰν ἀπὺ Σαρδίων
Πρός σε πόλλακι τυίδε νῶν ἔχοισα

15:07.

Πηλόρει?

15:07.

[Πηλοροῖ νῦν Ἀνακτορί' ἀ φίλα
Λέπταν ϝὰν ἀπὺ] Σάρδ̤ί̣[ων
Πρός σε πό]λλα̣κ̣ι τ̣υίδε [νῶν ἔχοισα

15:09.

[Πηλοροῖ νῦν Ἀνακτορί' ἀ φίλα
Λέπταν ϝὰν ἀπὺ] Σάρδ̣ί̣[ων
Πρός σε πό]λ̣λ̣α̣κ̣ι τ̣υίδε̣ [νῶν ἔχοισα

15:09.

[Πηλόρει νῦν Ἀνακτορί' ἀ φίλα
Λέπταν ϝὰν ἀπὺ] Σάρδ̣ί̣[ων
Πρός σε πό]λ̣λ̣α̣κ̣ι τ̣υίδε̣ [νῶν ἔχοισα

15:10.

[Πήλ' ἄπεστιν Ἀνακτορί' ἀ φίλα
Λέπταν ϝὰν ἀπὺ] Σάρδ̣ί̣[ων
Πρός σε πό]λ̣λ̣α̣κ̣ι τ̣υίδε̣ [νῶν ἔχοισα

15:11.

New titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 4

Fr. 1: Sappho 16 Thévenaz

Zoccu è ntô munnu a cchiù beđđa cosa?
Ἂ, τὸ κάλλιστόν γ' ἐπὶ γᾶς τί ἐστι;
Orbe quid pulcherrimum? In the world now
What is most beautiful?

Fr. 2: Ti prèju, Gongyla

Puisia pi Gongyla scritta 'i Saffu
Ψάπφικον ποίημ' ἐπὶ Γογγύλαν ϝὰν
Gongylā super, poem on her pretty
Gongyla, pulchrā.

Fr. 3: Ode to a beautiful woman

Ἐς κάλαν γύναικα πόημα Σάπφως
Innu pi na fimmina beđđa 'i Saffu
Pulchram ad femellam, a poem to a
Beautiful woman.

Fr. 4: Kleis

Supra Cleide a figghia sò παῖδα ϝὰν ὐπὲρ Κλέϊν γε
On her daughter Cleis puellā super suāpte Cleide

Tune for the Edmonds version of "To die is an ill"

Tune for my version of "To die is an ill"

Tune for "On Kleis"

Tune for "Ode to a beautiful woman" aka "Comparing you to blonde Helen"

Recording-day (27/5) tweak not reflected.

Tune for "I loved you", single line

For a te palai pota, change the FF C of Atthi to EbF C

23/5/25 16:48. Refers to next thing's message.

Tune for "I loved you", three-line thing

FF GAb FF Ab Db CC F^ C F^F^ C Db BbBb C->G Ab
Eraman men ego sethen Atthi palai pota

23/5/25 16:47.

Tune for "Dripping cloth"

FF C FA F CC D CC AA
Aimitybion stalassob

11/6/25 16:41.

Tune for "Where was Aphrodite born?"

FG A CC GG ABb C A BbC D CC AA
E se Kypros kai Paphos e Panormos

10/7/25 4:29.

Tune for "Cretan women"

Title for "U giuramentu ṙi Artemidi" (Saffu in Siçilianu ep. 10)

Ὄρκος Ἀρτέμιδος, Giuramentu ṙi Artèmidi,
Oath of Artemis, Artemidis sacramentum, en

24/8/25 0:42 up to the English, Latin added 2/3/26 12:04.

Tune for the spurious line of the Ostrakon Florentinum

Oyranothen katioysa
FF C Bb AA G A CBb AA

26/8/25 1:14.

Tune for "Plucking the strings"

D EF DD A G FF G EE
τεούτ[οι]σι φιλοφ[ό]νως

31/8/25 23:35.

FE DD F A D^D^ A BbBb G AA Bb AA
πᾶ]κτις δ' ἐλελίσδ[ε]ται προσ̣ανέ̣ως

23:36.

D^E^ D^D^ AA Bb G FF A DD
εὔφ]ωνος δὲ δι' ο[στί]ων

23:37.

FF EE D G FF F GA D^ AA F^ DD^^
ἔρπει] μυάλ̣ω δ' ἐ[πε]ί κ' ἔ̣νη̣ τ̣ρ̣[έχε]ι

23:39.

Tune for "Night-long sleep"

D C AA G F BbBb A Bb CC GG
Ota pannykhos asphi katagrei
BbBb Bb AA G F
Ypnos oppata

3/9/25 17:00.

Tune for "To Apollo"

Caveat to above score:

"Anaclastic tercet" of Margon is tr+gl | 2ia | 2ia with tune GA F CC F BbA G AA F E DD G FF | D FF E GG FF DD F DD | F AA G BbBb A GG A FF

9/11/25 16:16.

That would be the newly analyzed «] . . . . . . ἀ[μ]έ̣ραις (conj. tr+gl) / x–]ρ̣σᾰνον[.] . ὀργία̣ν (conj. ᾰ then 2ia) / x–u θ]ύ̣σομεν [ux]».

Λάτως] τε κα̣ὶ Δ̣ί̣[ος] πάϊ[ς] (2ia)
–u–x x] . . ε . . . [.] ἔπι[]θ̤' ὄρ̣γιον[ (poss. tr+gl)
Γρύνη]α[ν] ὐλ̣ώδ̣η λίπ̣ων (2ia)

D FF E GG F DD F DD
DE C FF C AG F FF E F GG Bb AA
F AA G BbBb AA GG A FF

καὶ σὸν κλύ]το̣ν̣ χ̣ρ̣η[σ]τ̣ήριον (2ia)
–u–x xx–].[ ] . ε̣ϋμες̣[. .] . [.]ων (tr+gl with eÿmes)
] . . . . [. . . . .] (conj. 2ia)

D FF E GG FF DD F DD
DE C FF C AG F FF E F GG Bb AA
F AA G BbBb A GG A FF

] . . . . . . ἀ[μ]έ̣ραις (conj. tr+gl)
x–]ρ̣σᾰνον[.] . ὀργία̣ν (conj. ă then 2ia with CV as the two missing letters)
xx– λ]ύ̣σομεν [ux] (conj. tr+gl)

GA F CC A | BbA G AA F G AA C AA
F AA G BbBb A GG A FF
FF E GG F EE C FF A G FF E FF

x–u ]νϋμνε[–ux] (conj. 2ia)
κ̣α̣[ὶ u–x ]ε̣να̣[.]φο . [. . .]ν . ἀδελφέαν (tr+gl but that letter before adelphean is a problem…)
ὠς πάϊ[ς x] . ιο̣ . [. . .] . [u–ux] (starts with trochee so tr+gl)

D FF E GG F DD F DD
DE C FF C AG F FF E F GG Bb AA
AA G BbBb AA G A FF G A CC Bb AA

οὔτις δε̣[. . .]κει̣ ἦ̣ θέ̣λ̣η[ι (end)] (2ia)
δεί̣χ̣ν̣υσ[ίν γ]ε· δηὖτε Πωλ̣υ̣ανακτίδαν (tr+gl)
τὸν μάρ̣γον̣ ὄν̣δε̣ιξα̣ι̣ θέλω

D FF E GG F DD F DD
DE C FF C AG F FF E F GG Bb AA
F AA G BbBb AA GG A FF

Tune for "For these friends of mine

CBb A CBb C AA F C BbBb G GA GF
Taisde tais' emais' etaraisi kai sais

7/9/25 2:37.

Opening for the Chôka de no Saffō series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία as usual
V2 Chôka no Saffō (CC A GG E DDD DDD CCCCC, 2:50/51)
V3 and V4 usual Greek ones

12/11/24 2:53, then changed to Chôka de no Saffō with the "de" going on GG and the "no" on EE.

Or maybe one of them goes chôka

2:54.

Make one voice Ψάπφω BBBBB CCCCC and the other 日本語 G GGGG GGGG

11:54.

In the end I stuck to the nighttime stuff :), except the Chôka voice goes BB A GGG GGGG, no idea when that happened, except definitely within that month.

Opening for crossovers of the Chôka de no Saffō series with the Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία one

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 Chôka no Saffō
V3 Chôka GGGGGGGG
V4 Σαπφώ BBBBB BCCCC

15/11/24 23:40.

Opening for the Saffo auf Deutscher Sprache series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία (the usual)
V2: Auf Deutscher Sprache (usual tune)
V3: Ψάπφω FF EE
V4: Auf Deutsch DD CC

30/10/24 9:52.

Opening for the Saffo in Rumãgnöl series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 Saffo in Rumagnöl CCC GG C BBBBB B CCCCCC
V3 Saffo
V4 Ψάπφω DD CC

20/11/24 12:21.

Opening for crossovers of the previous two series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία (the usual)
V2: Auf Deutscher Sprache (usual tune)
V3: In Rumãgnöl G GGGGG G GGGGG
V4: Ψάπφω DD CC

Somewhere between 3/1 and 10/1/25, maybe within 8/1 since by then the all-crossover series was thought up.

Two openings for crossovers of the Safo en Español and Ψάπφω στη Νεοελληνική series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 στη Νεοελληνική CCC GG C BBBBB B CCCCCC
V3 en Español G GGGGG G GGGGGG
V4 Ψάπφω D C

11/12/24 16:46.

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 Sti Neoelliniki CCC GG C BBBBB B CCC
V3 Elliniki G GGGGG G GGG
V4 Safo en Español GGG EE E DDDDD D CCCC

12/8/25 1:31/32.

Opening for the Mick Gorro and the Classics series

[msg start]

Όμηρος, Catullus,
E CC GG G CCC CC

17:02.

Lucrétius,
G AA B CC

17:05 msg.

17:03 for Lucrétius

17:05.

Ηρόδοτος
CC E D CC

17:06.

Callimaco, Fedro, Virgilio, Orazio

17:08.

Ovidio, graffito pompeiano

17:08.

Menandro, Alceo

17:09.

Μένανδρος, Αλκαίος (Άλκαιος?), Κα^λλίμαχος, Ovidius, Horátius, Virgilius, Phaedrus

17:13.

Όμηρος, Catullus,
E CC GG G CCC CC
Lucrétius, Virgilius
G AA B CCC BBB D B G

17:15.

Όμηρος, Catullus,
E CC GG G CCC CC
Lucrétius, Καλλίμαχος
G AA B CCC BBB D B G

17:15.

Ac Μένανδρος,
AA D CC A

17:17.

Όμηρος, Catullus,
E CC GG G CCC CC
Lucrétius, Καλλίμαχος
G AA B CCC BBB D B G
Ac Μένανδρος, Ovidiusque
AA D CC A C D C AA A

17:20.

Όμηρος, Catullus,
E CC GG G CCC CC
Lucrétius, Καλλίμαχος
G AA B CCC BBB D B G
Ac Μένανδρος Ovidiusqu'
AA D CC A C D C AA
Horatiusque, Phaedrus
A GG A BB C DD GG -> A GG E DD D BB GG

17:21.

[msg start]

And other unknown authors,
Ed altri autori ignoti:
G GG A BB C DD
B BB C DD E FF

Mick Gorro and the Classics!
🎵Ψάπφω α Λεσβία🎵
(idea from yesterday)

17:25 msg.

Virgilius, Αλκαίος,
CCC B C G CCC EE D CCC

17:26.

Opening for the Poetry after the Classics series

[msg start]

Poetry past the Classics!

Leopardi, Shakespeare,

9/1/24 3:34.

Poesie dopo i Classici!

3:34.

Can I list them all?

Two troubadours

3:35.

Leopardi, Shakespeare, Bernart de Ventadorn, Guilhem de Peitieu, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Yeats, Hu Shi, Iroha, Chun Xiao, Geste, Coleridge?, Blake, Baudelaire.

3:39.

9:39 BUT ACTUALLY 3:39 msg.

[msg start]

Leopardi, Shakespeare,
Two troubadours, Donne, Sidney,
Then Spenser, Milton, and even Yeats,
Hu Shi and Meng Haoran, -> And Meng Haoran and Hu Shi, Blake, Coleridge, and Baudelaire,
And other unknown authors,
Ed altri autori ignoti:
Poetry past the Classics! / Poesie dopo i Classici!

3:42, forgot Chaucer!

9:39 BUT ACTUALLY 3:42 msg.

[msg start]

Spenser, Milton, Chaucer, and Yeats,
And Meng Haoran and Hu Shi,

3:43.

9:39 BUT ACTUALLY 3:43 msg.

[msg start]

And one or two more authors,
E un paio d'altri autori

If the author of Geste and/or Iroha is known, or if something else pops up.

3:45.

9:39 BUT ACTUALLY 3:45 msg.

And Dante and other authors,
E Dante ed altri autori

10:16.

(That'd be the authors of Geste, Iroha, Ave Maria Jungfrau Mild)

10:27.

Final (13/1/24 11:57):

Leopardi, Shakespeare,
Two troubadours, Donne, Sidney,
Then Spenser, Milton, Chaucer and Yeats,
And Meng Haoran and Hu Shi,
Blake, Coleridge, Storck and Baudelaire, 11:57 making this version.
And Dante and other authors,
E Dante ed altri autori:
Poetry after the Classics! / Poesie dopo i Classici!

Actually, Blake, Coleridge, Dante, Baudelaire, And Storck and other authors.

13/1/24 11:58 right after the version above.

Opening for crossovers of the Mick Gorro and the Classics, Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία, and Saffu in Siçilianu series

This is just superimposing the Mick Gorro and the Classics opening with the Saffu in Siçilianu opening, with "And in English" in its tune and "E Italiano" in the "Et Latīnē" tune, then part two just has the English controcanto lyrics as new from when I thought this up in late July 2025, but the versions of the fragments cover are covered here.

Opening for crossovers of the Mick Gorro and the Classics and Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος series

Just superimpose the Classics opening with:

GGG EED CCC C C/D C DDEFF D CCCC

20/12/24 1:03 (voice 1).

GGG EED CCC E G A->G GGABB G GGG

1:03/04 (voice 2).

GGG GGF->GGG EEE E G G GGABB G GGG

1:04 (voice 2 tweak).

Haven't put this together yet. Also, the Alcæus solo opening is quite different, so this will probably never be recorded as is.

Opening for the Katōitaliṓtika series

This was thought up and assembled within 14/1/24, in fact probably earlier. Not sure when. It's the Sappho series opening, with V1 singing "Katoitaliotika", V2 "Griko", V3 "Italiot Greek", and V4 "Greko".

Two openings for the A lifetime of translations series

It would appear I never wrote down the history leading to this score, which is from 18/7/23, but only kept it in screenshots which I now have no time to copy. After that, I came up with the Italian voice, for which I do have the history.

[msg start]

Dal liceo al dottorato, eterna passion

3/8/23 20:50.

E dal liceo

20:52, depending on which voice I need to follow with this Italian.

3/8/23 20:53 msg.

Liceo, uni, dottorato, e oltre: ardente di passion

10/10/23 15:35.

Traduzioni di una vita
DC B G D G F# A

15:39.

Di tantissime canzon
DD D G B D D

15:40.

Non smette di tradurre
DC B G E C B D

15:44.

C E D G E D DglissB

15:46.

Non smetto di tradurre

15:49.

Il "gioco" mio continuerò

15:49.

coninuerò
G E D DglissG

15:49.

As is found in the todo list, unfortunately under Beginner Badslation Reviews by mistake…
While the opening was already found in the bonus here at 5:39-6:06, I reviewed it because I'm way past my PhD, so now the voices are as below.

Voice 1:
A lifetime of translatïons
With anecdotes for days
From high school | to post-doc and beyond (15/10/25 21:56)
With passion e'er ablaze
Oh see al those translations
Songs in tongues, this "game" I play

Voice 2:
The translations of a lifetime
How I met the songs, and any help I got
From high school | to post-doc and beyond
With passion e'er ablaze
A lifetime of translations
Songs in tongues, this "game" I play

Voice 3:
The translations of a lifetime
Oh, so many languages!
High school | to post-doc and beyond
With passion e'er ablaze
The translations of a lifetime of translations
Songs in tongues, this "game" I play

Italian voice:
Traduzioni di una vita
Di tantissime canzon
E da licëo a post-doc ed oltre (17/10/25 14:47, preceded by «Licëo, uni, assegno ed oltre» at the same time) Non smette di tradurre
Il "gioco" mio continuerò

Opening for the Beginner Badslation Revies series

[msg start]

If someone is just starting out
On a language on his own,
And tries to translate into it,

In tune of A lifetime of translations.

8/1/24 0:39 msg.

Unless it's like his own,

0:55.

A language wholly new,

0:56.

On a language wholly new,

0:56.

My Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I will review!

11:47, not msg.

He'll screw up badly too.

11:48, not msg, hmm.

Other voice:
When one starts out on a language
Nothing like his own
Or any one he knows,

11:51, not msg.

He's bound to mess up too.

11:52, not msg. hmm. This dang rhyme…

E cerca di tradurci qualcosa,
Che schifo che farà!

11:54, not msg.

Chi ha appena iniziato->cominciato
Una lingua nuōva

11:54, not msg.

Con Cinese e Giapponese
Anch'io ho fatto schifo, va'! -> Ho iniziato male, va'!

11:55, not msg.

E cerca di tradurre in quela

11:56, not msg, deleo.

Third voice:
When one starts out on a language
And tries to translate into it

11:57, not msg, not really.

When one starts out on a language,
Oh, nothing like the ones he knows,
Trying to translate into it

11:57, not msg.

He's bound some crap to do

8/1/24 23:42, not msg.

Some crap he's bound->sure to do.

23:42, not msg.

RECAP (9/1/24 0:00):

Voice 1:
If someone is just starting out
On a language on his own,
And tries to translate into it,
Some crap he's sure to do.
My Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I will review!

Voice 2:
When one starts out on a language
Nothing like his own
Or any one he knows,
And tries to translate into it,
Some crap he's sure to do.
My Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I will review!

Voice 3:
When one starts out on a language,
Oh, nothing like the ones he knows,
Trying to translate into it
Some crap he's sure to do.
Come and listen as my Japanese and Chinese 0:03
Bad beginnings I review! 0:03

Italian voice:
Chi ha appena cominciato
Una lingua nuōva
E cerca di tradurci canzoni, 0:04
Che schifo che farà!
Con Cinese e Giapponese
Ho iniziato male, va'!

IM A FUCKING MORON. REDO THE RECAP, RIGHT THIS TIME!

RECAP (9/1/24 0:12):

Voice 1:
If someone is just starting out
On a language wholly new,
And tries to translate into it,
Some crap he's sure to do.
My Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I will review!

Voice 2:
When one starts out on a language
Nothing like his own
Or any one he knows,
And tries to translate into it,
Some crap he's sure to do.
My Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I will review!

Voice 3:
When one starts out on a language,
Oh, nothing like the ones he knows,
Trying to translate into it
Some crap he's sure to do.
Come and listen as my Japanese and Chinese
Bad beginnings I review!

Italian voice:
Chi ha appena cominciato
Una lingua nuōva
E cerca di tradurci canzoni,
Che schifo che farà!
Con Cinese e Giapponese
Ho iniziato male, va'!

Opening for the Badslation Reviews series

[msg start]

Bad language,
Mistranslations,

wordings

Terrible meter...

11/1/24 23:25 msg.

[msg start]

Bad wordings: lone C
Mistranslations: C and E (or F, nah)
Terrible meter: D G B

Gotta find something to put between CE and DGB to make CEG or CFA

23:26 msg.

Or maybe C, CA, DGB. And then the babababaaaaaadslation reviews

23:27.

[msg start]

Make it:

Mistranslations, C
Terrible meter, CE
Bad wordings, CFA
Awful linguistic choices... DGB

23:37 msg.

Actually, DFGB

23:38.

With slowdown

23:38.

Blog's todo list adds: The opening has existed for ages, but for now has only been shown in short forms in crossovers. However, at 0:40 on 7/9/25 as I updated the todo list, I thought I could have its first part, then the first part of whatever it crossovers with (I imagined @Cl and @Ψ), then the crossover forms I've been using so far.

Opening for the Non-Rhythmic Reviews series (which has been canceled)

[msg start]

Sappho poetry not in barbarous meters

GG EE EE CC G/E GG EE EE CC G FFFFF EEEEE

11/1/24 23:29 msg.

(With a sprinkling of bad meter in Latin)

23:33.

Give that to the low voices once they're at their arrival point

23:34.

[msg start]

Not in barbarous meter vs.

Non in metrica barbara
EE CC CC GG G BBBBB B CCCCC

23;35 msg.
[msg start]

Frammenti di Saffo

G CC GG E GG GG

And on Saffo, the English voice appears with Sappho, then continues with "fragments", and then the Italian joins in for the ens.

23:41 msg.

Make that G CC GG E GG CC to avoid parallel octaves

23:50.

Opening for the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος series

GGG EED CCC GGC BBC DDB CCC
Αλκαιος Μιτυληνιος
8/11/24 1:25.

Then I remembered εν Μιτυληνααισιν from αγαναι γυναικες, so...

CCC 'GC -> CCC 'AG
-ος Μιτυ-

1:26.

Then at 9:16 on 11/11/24 I added an article "o", making the tune GGG EE D C'' C G C BB C DD B C.

[msg start]

V1 Αλκαιος ο Μιτυληναος GGG EE D C'' C G C BBCDD B CCC
V2 Αλκαιος GGG BB A GGG GGG
V3 Αλκαιος EEE FFEDDD EEE
V4 Αλκαιος CCC DDCBBB CCC (low)
Hopefully not too much parallelism

21/11/25 1:20 sent 1:22.

Opening for crossovers of the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος and Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 Αλκαιος ο Μιτυληνιος
V3 Αλκαιος GGG BBA GGG GGGG
V4 Ψάπφω DDDD CCCC

12/11/24 22:54.

Opening for crossovers of the Ἀλκαῖος ὀ Μιτυλήναος, Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία, Hànyǔ shígē de Sāfú, and Sappho auf Deutscher Sprache series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 Αλκαιος ο Μιτυληναος
V3 汉语 FFD CCBCCCC
V4 Auf Deutsch all G
V5 Saffo e Alceo all G

21/11/24 21:46.

Two openings for the Hànyǔ shígē de Sāfú series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία (the usual)
V2: 翻译成汉语 CCC (on -φω) CCG GGC BBGGAG CCC
V3: Ψάπφω FF EE
V4: 汉语 FFDDCB CCC

30/10/24 9:49.

Chinese opening:
V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2 用汉语啊 CCG CCG AAGAAA CCCCC
V3 汉语 FFD CCBCCCC
V4 Ψάπφω all G.

21/11/24 21:46.

Series title: 22/11/24 15:32

Hanyu shige de Safu
EED CCA GGA CC G BBBBBB BCCCC

V2 from 15:32

Hanyu BBA GGFGGGGG

V4 from 23:46, hence V3 has to be Ψάπφω DDDDDD CCCC

Opening for the canceled Safo en Castellano video

An episode «Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία | Safo de Lesbo en métrica bárbara en Español» was planned for 6/2/33 (as of 10/11/24) to sing the barbarous meter Spanish translations found at this link and included in the edition. The opening imagined with one voice saying "En Castellano" much the same way as the @Sic opening has one saying "In Siçilianu". However, I now have a Greek-Spanish series planned instead, so that episode will be replaced by the first episode of that series, which does not include those translations, many of which belong in different episodes.
On 7/11/24 at 20:54, I started a Spanish Sapphic stanza intro for this episode, with «Hoy de Safo yo voy a presentarvos / Cinco poesías».

Opening for the Saffu in Siçilianu series

Opening for episodes of the Saffu in Siçilianu series with English translations

Opening for episodes of the Saffu in Siçilianu series with Latin translations

I'mma level with you guys: I have no dates for these. The main Sicilian thing was assembled on 13/4/24, and by 20/5 the trivial additions for English and Latin were recorded, but I have no precise dates. I can say the Sicilian opening wasn't thought up before the first Sicilian translation, or before getting back to Carate on 2/4/24. That's about it, at least without extensive diary reading. So here are the voices:

V1 Usual Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία
V2 In Siçilianu CCC GG C BBBBB BCCCCCC
V3 Siçilianu EE E DDDDDD CCCCCC
V4 Ψάπφω all G
V5 And in English GG G GGG EEE
V6 Et Latīnē GG G EEE CCC

Using V6 for Italian was thought up sometime in Aug 2024 and recorded 19/8/24.

Opening for the Saffó a Magyar nyelvben and Sapphō linguā Latīnā all-crossover series

V1 Usual Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία
V2 Saffó a Magyar nyelvben CCC GG C B B BBBB CCC CCC (from who knows when, probably Apr 2025)
V3 Linguā Latīnā GGG EE E GGGGGG EEEEEE
V4 Ψάπφω all G

29/10/25 13:58 reconstructed 14:04.

Opening for the Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία series

I do not have a date for this, but based on the videos, it was definitely done by 8/5/21, and probably wasn't on 17/4/21, as I assume I'd have included it in the video from that day if it had existed.

V1 Ψάπφω ἀ Λεσβία ὦ GGG EEE EEE CC G FFFFF FEEEEEE
V2 Ψάπφω BBBBBB CCCCCC
V3 Ψάπφω GGGGGG GGGGGG
V4 Ψάπφω DDDDDD CCCCCC

Tune for the "fragments cover"

AC A FF CC CC C E DD A DD CC
Ἰόπλοκ' ἄγνα μελλιχόμειδε Σάπφοι,

17/4/23 23:11.

FF C AA CC FG F C DC Bb DD C
Ἄμμιν ἐν ποήμασι σοῖσιν ὄττι

23:14.

FF C EF D CC
Γράψαι ἤθελες,

18/4/23 16:19.

A C DD -> A E DD -> A F DD
τὰ θέλω

16:22.

F CC FF DD C Bb CC AA
λάβων ὄρθως μεταφράσδην.

16:23.

6/5/23:

Ammin en poemasi
AA F AA C FG F C ->
CC F AA C...

10/5/23 15:43.

F DD C D CC A F DD C Bb CC AA
κάλως μετάτρεψαι, κάλως μεταφράσδην

19/4/24 9:03, composed for 4-voice versions with controcanto.

Tune for the "fragments cover", voice 2

404 date not found :). No really, I have it first appear in the Al fratello Carasso video from 18/6/23, and the earliest attestation is the 2-voice score on 6/5/23. I guess there are screenshots for its composition?

Well actually this is from 21/4/23, and the below is from 6/5/23.

There are a couple other scores, the latest of which is this 11/5/23 one:

Tune for the "fragments cover", voice 3

For this one, I'm pretty sure I just sat down one day and composed both in one sitting. I do not seem to have screenshots of that process. I have a trilingual score from 18/4/24:

OK, let me take that back. I sat down on 18/4/24 and made voice 3 16:45-17:08. Voice 4 required two sittings.

Tune for the "fragments cover", controcanto

Sitting 1 for this was 19:08-19:30 on 18/4/24, sitting 2 23:43-0:04 the same day. Quadrilingual score here.

Opening for crossovers of the Saffo in Rumãgnöl and Ψάπφω στη Νεοελληνική series

For Greek-Romagnolo crossovers:

V1 usual
V2 Στη Νεοελληνική CCC GG C BBBBB B CCCC
V3 In Rumãgnöl G GGGG G GGGG
V4 Ψάπφω

26/10/25 16:55.

Opening for the Saffo in Briansoeu e Bergamasch series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2: Saffo en Briansoeu
V3: En Bergamasch
V4 Ψάπφω

5/10/25 5:05.

Opening for the Saffo in Piemuntéis e Zeneise series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2: Saffo en Zeneise
V3: An Piemunteis
V4 Ψάπφω

5/10/25 5:06.

Two possible openings for the Saffo in Triestin e Furlan series

V1: Ψάπφω α Λεσβία
V2: Saffo en Triestin
V3: Par Furlan
V4 Ψάπφω

5/10/25 5:06.

V1: Usual
V2: Saffo en Triestin
V3: Psappho
V4: Saffo par Furlan

3/1/26 16:23.

Opening for the Saffo in Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese series

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία usual high
V2 Hanyu shige de Safu high
V3 Choka de no Saffō low
V4 Han-gug-eo-log all G
V5 Vietnamese

22/10/25 21:14.

V1 Ψάπφω α Λεσβία usual high
V2 Hanyu shige de Safu high
V3 Choka de no Saffō low
V4 Han-gug-eo-lo all G
V5 Bằng tiếng Việt G FF EE?

21:14.

V5 AG FGG FEE ba-ng ti-eeng vi?etn

21:17.

Opening for the Saffo in Swahili-Zulu-Lingala series

[msg start]

Add Zulu-Swahili-Lingala

V1 Greek
V2 esiZulweni
V3 Kwa Kiswahili
V3 Na Lingala

22/10/25 23:41 msg.

Or maybe make Swahili V2 and keep the other two parallel as NgesiZulu and Na Lingala

23:42.

Tune for "But you have forgotten me" (LP 129(a))

D^ A FF A FF D EF DD
Emethen d' echestha lathan

29/10/25 17:58.

Composed 17:56, typed in translit because the idiot wouldn't load the keybs

17:59.

Tune for "I truly wish I were dead" (LP 94)

Translating the account from the Italian edition and adding a few recent messages.

We start with the first two lines in the first of a series of Fb voice notes ("VN"), on 18/3/19 at 0:57:05, where l. 2 is in its final form while l. 1 has οὖδεν ἄρ' as CBb A G and ὄψομαι AA F DD, with that long D not connecting to the next line.

At 1:00:40 in VN 2 -δεν and ἄρ' become G and Bb respectively.

At 1:07:05 in VN 3:

L. 3 gets started;
λως θέ- becomes FG E – mis-singing, according to the account of the history I made like the following day, but it remained for quite a while;
L. 3 in final tune;
As it turns out, «avevo fatto anche l'altro verso ma non mi ricordo più come faceva» (I'd also made the other line but I don't remember what the tune was), i.e. l. 4 was made but the version from back then was lost.

At 1:07:38 in VN 4 we have BbBb G GF A A FE G DD for l. 4, a tune termed as "Mah".

So all that should be left is changing καὶ from GA to GF, fixing οὔδεν, and undoing the change to -λως θέ-, then we're at final form.

At 1:09:47 in VN 5 we find l. 5 in its final tune; what became of the FE EC I remember, I don't know.

At 1:13:32 in VN 6 I skip a line and do l. 7 in final form.

At 1:15:47 in VN 7 the skipped line appears, at first starting with EE FG GA for Ψάπφ' ἢ μὰν, to then get to DD EF GA AB AA A A CC B AA.

At 1:41:04 in VN 8 οὔδεν gets fixed, though it becomes οὔποτ'.

THe recap from 18:16 on 18/3, i.e. the same day of these 8 VNs, changes the note of -μαι (ὄψομαι) from D to E, and brings l. 6 to EE AG FE A B AA A A CC B AA.

We then skip to 22/3/19, where at 7:47:34 in an unnumbered VN Ψάπφ' ἢ μάν σ' ἀέκοισ' ἀπυλιππάνω becomes A AG AB A B AA A A AA B AA, with that AA B AA then becoming EE B AA. I comment «Then there was another version, which I completely forgot, and that's probably why I remember midnight-22 so clearly», so one would assume these things are from nighttime.

At 7:54:22 in another unnumbered VN we have AA AG AB C D CC C C AA B AA and then AA AG AB C D CC C C BB C AA.

I then only come back to this on 15/7/19, where VN 9 from 00:13:32 brings:

FG ABb for χαίροισ'; «Oh wait a second, that's not how the pitch accent goes»;
ABb GA CC Bb A ABb G AA (not ABb GA CC A F BbA G AA as I'd previously written in this index) for all of l. 8;
F^F^ ED (μέμναισ') CBb A Bb (οἶσθα γὰρ) GA A F GA E FF (ὤς σε πεδήπομεν);
The option GA A F FG C FF for ὤς σε πεδήπομεν, as well as GA A A FG E F for the same part;
«And that was done by 10:57 [recte 22:57], and then at between then and 23, I thought back to a previous, um, stanza, and I wasn't sure if ω… if it was ὦμ' or ὤμ', so I… uuuh… welp.»; but VN 11 from 0:14:05 specifies «I mean 22:57 on the 13th of July, not, like, less than 2h ago, a day and that much ago.», so all these things are from 13, not from 5;

At 0:13:51 in VN 10 we get EF DC BA E A CC B AA forr ὤμ' ὠς δεῖνα πεπόνθαμεν.

At 15:51:18 in VN 12 12 with cicadas:

F^F^ C CD D E DD E D for αἰ δὲ μή_ἀλλά σ' ἔγω θέλω;
DD BbB GG F E EF for ὄμναισαι τὰ σὺ λά-, followed by "No.".

Lastly, at 15:52:22 in VN 13 still with cicadas:

DD BbBb FF F E EF for ὄμναισαι τὰ σὺ λά-, followed by HmHm (clearing throat);
DD BbBb FF E D ABb G FF for l. 8;
DD F^F^ DD D D CBBb C Bb DD C BbBb (did I want to modulate?) for the following line, in fact Bb DD A BbBb ἐπάσχομεν;
«And this, uuh, these three lines were done within 1:10, uuh, of the 15th of July, which is today, and, umm, there is a part at the beginning which was done within 1, I think it was the first two of these three lines, I'm not sure though.».

Alas, these VNs from 15/7 get completely forgotten by the second recap, from 14:46 on 2/1/24, where we have three changes:

ἀδόλως θέλω goes back to E A FE G DD;
πόλλα καὶ ends up with GF instead of GA, i.e. καὶ gets fixed;
Ψάπφ' ἦ μάν σ' ἀέκοισ' ἀπυλιμπάνω becomes EE AG FA A B AA A A CC B AA.

On 16/10/22 at 21:39 I remake ll. 8-9 ABb AG CC A F BbC A GG (21:33) and AA FF AG A G BbC A F ABb G F (21:35).

Then on 23/4/24 I come back to this, and σ' ἀέκοισ' ἀπυλιππάνω becomes A B AA C C CC D CA at 2:38, to then become, together with μὰν, FA F G EE A A AA B AA at 12:40, which is the final form.

On 16/7/24 then, after transcribing the VNs and putting the whole story together, I decide at 15:29 to make ll. 8-9 into ABb GA CC Bb A ABb G AA and F^F^ ED CBb A G BbC A F ABb G FF respectively.

At 15:31 then I make the latter into F^F^ ED CBb A G BbC A F CA G FF.

I then go back to 11-12 at 15:41, making at first DD BbBb FF E D ABb G FF (ὄμναισαι τὰ σὺ λάθεαι) and DD F^F^ DD D D CBBb C Bb DD A BbBb (ὄσσ' ἄμμες φίλα καὶ κάλ' ἐπάσχομεν, to then go to DD BbBb GG F E EF D CC.

To connect those two, at 15:42 λάθεαι becomes EF E DD.

Given the acute accent, at 15:45 φίλα becomes D C.

With that, we have arrived at the point when, according to a completely undatable but by now rather old idea, which however definitely followed this answer on Quora, la musica smette di seguirethe tune stops following each line, decides what to do on the next stanza (tercet), and then repeats itself.

Thus, making at 15:58 l. 13, with ἴων passing from Bb FF to Bb GG (whole tune is DD BbBb FF E F DD Bb FF->GG) also at 15:58, and once l. 14 is made at 16 (GEb C AA G A FF Eb DD) and l. 15 at 16:02, split into two pieces (Κάρᾳ σῷ G EbEb AF and the rest F Bb GG F G BbC A BbBb), the tune is over. With one last tweak:

τε καὶ κάλ' ἐπάσχομεν
Eb D BbC D Eb FF D/A BbBb

5/5/26 10:27.

But then there's text variants, whence the following messages:

Omnaisai sy kalōs phrasai
DD BbBb GG F Bb AA Bb GG

31/10/25 12:12.

sy de dē phrasai
F E EF Bb AG

1/11/25 12:49.

Ossa terpna te
DD F F D D

12:50

D^D^ A AA Bb D^ AA F G
Atthid oyd' en ar' opsomai

9/4/26 0:52.

[msg start]

Οσσ' ιμμερτα τε και καλ' επασχομεν
DD FF DD F D CBb C Bb DD C BbBb

9:48-a.

DD FF BbBb Eb D CBb C Bb DD C BbBb

9:49-a.

28/4/26 9:49 msg. So the two bits were different messages sent at those timestamps to the wrong chat.

[msg start]

ȚΟσσ' ιμμερτα τε και καλ' επασχομεν
DD FF BbBb Eb D BbC D Bb DD C BbBb

Near end of shower.

10:32 msg. Shower was 10:12:16-10:31:45.

Ὄμναισαί τε καὶ εὖ φράσαι
DD BbBb GBb E Bb CA Bb AG

5/5/26 10:29.

Ομναισ' αι συ κε βολλεαι
DD BbBb GG Bb G CC Bb AG

11:29.

Omnais' anthea kai phrasai
DD BbBb GG F E EF E DD

9/5/26 3:56.

Tune for "A desire to die possesses me" (LP 95)

FF D AAA BbBb A Bb G D AA F GA
Κατθάνην δ' ἴμμερός τις ἔχει με καὶ
D^D F DD D G FF D EE
Λωτίνοις δροσόεντας ὄ-
AA Bb AA D^F EE F EE C EE DD
χθοις ἴδην Ἀχέροντος... Οὖδεν ἄδομ' ἔπαρθ' ἄγαν ἐπ' ὄλβῳ

Opening for the Sappho Direct Tradition series

V1 series title
V2 papyri G BBBBB BCCCC
V3 parchments GGGGGG GGGG
V4 An ostrakon E DDDDD D CCCCC

3/11/25 19:28.

Opening for the Sappho in English and AAVE series

V1 usual
V2 In Bla-ack English CCC GG C BBBBBBB CCCCCC
V3 Ψάπφω G G
V4 Sappho in English GGG EE E DDDDDD CCCCCC

5/11/25 22:01.

Tune for "Ye cowered"

DD EF E C GF AA D G GA FF D G FF E AA DD
Eptaxate, paides m', ypo khaitan drosoessan agnas
DD FF E G FF DD C# E D GF GA FF D GG FF
Daphnas ota (...) ai (missing bit is minor version of Eymorphotera tune)

Tune for "O Dream"

D^ AA F G GA FF E F AA FF G E AA D EF DD
Onoire, melainas dia nyktos (rest inspired by manymat' ammi phainêis)
D^F^ AA D^ C E^E^ AA Bb G FF->AA FF G C DD C FF DD
Phoitais ota t' Ypnos (rest inspired by dynamin g' oy dynaton moi ymman)

Tune for "About her exile"

D^C^ D^C^ A Bb ABb AA D^ F^ E^E^ D^E^ F^ G^ F^F^ C DD AA
Nyn d'eim' epi taytan onian de kai asan alitran
F AA D^ F^ AA D^D^ C^ D^ AA AA G Bb AA D EF DD
Eporsomena, syn d'odynais Andromedan ypaxei

Tune for "We played"

D FF E G FF DD C# E FF AA G Bb AA D FF DD
oi khalepai merimnai (start inspired by Eymorphotera)
D FF E G FF DD F D ABb AA F G GA D^ C^C^ AA / D^ AA FG
Epei stega me (beginning inspired by Asaroteras)

Tune for "To Mika"

D^ AA D G GF GF F Bb AA D^D^ A D^ F^F^ A E^E^ D^D^
Egento de nyn... Toyto phrenas dakne polytrop' ammais
D^E^ D^D^ A Bb AA BbBb G A FF DD G F DD A BbBb AA
Kenaisi gar, oyk ammi, melos ti glykeron charisdei

Tune for "Against Andromeda"

A AB A F# F#G AF# D G F#F# AB A D^ AA A D^E^ D^D^
Tod'aition, oyt'aiskhron, epha, kwssa tukhen theleseis
AA DD^ F#^ E^ E^F#^ D^D^ A F# AB AA A B AA D^ AA F#F#
Oyden poly pasasthai, alathos gar emoi machesthai

Intro for the translations episode for "To Mika"

Original version:

Ψάπφως προφέρω ν' ὔμμιν ἔγω πό͜ημα βύβλου τετάρτου
Τὸ 'ς Ἰταλίκαν γλῶσσαν ἐγωὖτος μετά γ' ἔφρασ', ὄττῳ
Ἔδωκα μέλος, καὶ πρῶτ' ἀείδ' ὔμμι γε Λεσβίκᾳ μέν,
Ἔπειτα δὲ γλώσσ' Ἰταλίκᾳ. Χαίρετε νῦν ἀκό͜ᾳ γε!

Oggi io di Saffo a voi presento una poësïa
Che in lingua italiana ho tradotto ed ho poi musicato.
Prima in Greco antico ve lo canto, in Italiano poï.
Auguro a voi tutti che guardate un buon ascolto invero!

Edited version from recording day (7/12/25) to include the fact it's a combo of fragments:

Ψάπφως προφέρω ν' ὔμμιν ἔγω πό͜ημα βύβλου τετάρτου
Τὸ ἐκ μερέων τρί͜ων ζαφόρων πρόσφατα συντέθηται,
Τὸ 'ς Ἰταλίκαν γλῶσσαν ἐγωὖτος μετά γ' ἔφρασ', ὄττῳ
Ἔδωκα μέλος· πρῶτα δ' ἀείδ' ὔμμι γε Λεσβίκᾳ μέν,
Ἔπειτα δὲ γλώσσ' Ἰταλίκᾳ, πρῶτα μέρε͜ά γ', ἔπειτα
Τὰν σύνθεσιν αὔτων προφέρω. Χαίρετε νῦν ἀκό͜ᾳ γε!

Oggi io di Saffo vi presento una poësïa
Che da più frammenti separati è stata ricomposta
E in lingua italiana ho tradotto ed ho poi musicato.
Prima in Greco antico ve la canto, in Italiano poï,
Cantando per primi i componenti, poi la loro unione.
Auguro a voi tutti che guardate un buon ascolto invero!

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 7

Fr. 1: To Mika

Ποημα προσειπον τινα Μικαν, puisìa pi Mika

21/11/25 20:46, with earlier brainfart Italian version «poesia per Mika».

Fr. 2: To Dika

Πόημα πρόσειπόν τινα Δίκαν, puisìa pi Dika

21/11/25 probably just after the previous.

Fr. 3: It is not licit

Θρηνον μηποτε θηται nun ci fussi mai lamentu ccà

21/11/25 22:29, with earlier «Θρηνον συ γε μη θες, nun ti lamintà» from 20:57 for the Edmonds version which is not in @Sic.

Tune for "No lament is allowed", Tedeschi version

AG F GG Bb G FF GG Bb G AA GG A C# AA D^ BbBb
... Ου γαρ θέμις εν μοισοπολων δομωι
C^Bb A C^C^ G A FF CC Bb A BbC D^D^ F Bb AA G F
Θρήνον εμμεν απαυστον, Κλει, ου κ' αμμι πρεποι ταδε

Tune for "He who's fair"

D GG FF A G AA D^ E^ D^D^ F^ E^ D^D^ E^ C^C^
O men gar kalos, osson iden, peletai kalos
A C^ ABb A G FG F E [DE F D] AA F DD
O de kagathos autika kai kalos essetai

25/11/25, l. 1 0:00, l. 2 0:01, part in [] 26/11/25 0:05:3x.

Tune for "To Dika"

F AA G A FF F^E^ D^ C^ D^D^ BbBb C^ D^ C^C^ F^ CC A
Sy de stephanois o Dika perthesth' eratais phobaisin
C^C^ AA E C GA FF C^ D^ C^C^ C^C^ C^ F^ C^C^ A C^C^ A
Orpakas aneto synaerrais' apalaisi chersin

7/12/25, Sy de stephanois 12:29, l. 1 completed 12:30 with option C^C^ D^ CC A -tais phobaisin discarded, Orpakas aneto 12:31, l. 2 completed 12:32 with option C^C^ G C^C^ A for -laisi chersin discarded.

Tune for "The oath of Artemis" (LP Alc. 304)

Score (currently out of date):

Full text with notes (no time to make score!):

DE DD FF F Bb AA G C BbBb Bb D^ C^C^ E^ D^D^
Φοίβῳ χρυσοκό]μᾳ, τὸν ἔτικτε Κόω κ[όρα
ABb AA GG G Bb AA A F^ E^E^ C^ C^ C^C^ E^ D^D^
μίγεισ’ εὐρυβίᾳ Κρ]ονίδᾳ μεγαλωνύμῳ
FF E DD C E DD F D EE C C DE C D (all ^)
[ Ἄρτεμις δὲ θέων] μέγαν ὄρκον ἐπώμοσε·
ABb AA FG A Bb AA A A F^F^ D^ D^ G^G^ F^ D^
5 «[νὴ τὰν σὰν κεφά]λαν, ἀϊπάρθενος ἔσσομαι
D^D^ AA FF A Bb AA A F^ E^E^ E^ G^ E^E^ C^ D^
[ἄδμης οἰοπό]λων ὀρέων κορύφαισ᾽ ἔπι
AA BbC AA F^ E^ D^E^ D^ C^ AG F G FF E D
[θηρεύοισ’· ἄγι καὶ τά]δε νεῦσον ἔμαν χάριν».
DE FD FF A Bb AA C Bb AA A Bb G A FF
[ὢς εἶπ’· αὐτὰρ ἔνευ]σε θέων μακάρων πάτηρ,
F^F^ C^ AA G F C^D^ C^ C^ AA Bb D^ C^C^ Bb AA
[πάρθενον δ’ ἐλαφάβ]ολον ἀγροτέραν θέοι
C^C^ FF ABb A D^ C^C^ C E FF C Bb AA G F
10 [ἄνθρωποί τε κάλε]ισιν ἐπωνύμιον μέγα.
CD CC FF F Bb AA C A BbBb D^ Bb C^C^ Bb A
[κήνᾳ λυσιμέλης] Ἔρος οὐδάμα πίλναται·

Book-4 meter goodbye

Ὦ καίτ' ἐπϊημ' ὔμμι κάλαν αὖτος ἔγ' ἀμέραν νῦν!
V'auguro che un'ottima giornata voi passiate invero!

Tune for "Money without virtue" (LP 148)

DD FE D E CC GF EF DD FF A Bb AA D^ AA F
Ο πλούτος ανευ τας αρετας ουκ ασινης παροικος
AG FF A C AA CD^ C F^->E^ F^F^ D^D^ C D^ CC F^ CC A
Tα^ι δ' αμφοτερων κρασει εν' ευδαιμονίας το γ' άκρον

Tune for "I have a gentle mind" (LP 120)

CC AA GG Bb G GA FF C C BbBb D CC
ΧΧ αλλα τις ουκ εμμι παλιγκοτω
AA GG FF C F^ CC ABb C A FF G->A FF
Οργαν, αλλ' αβακην ταν φρεν' έχω u-

Tune for "I dare not touch the sky" (LP 52)

DE FF EE C E DD G A FF A Bb AA->GA D^ AA
Ψαυην δ' ου δοκιμωμ' ορανω δυσι παχεσιν / 'σσα διπαχεα

Tune for "I don't believe anyone" (LP 56)

FF A GG E G FF CC A D CC F^F^ E D CC D CC
Ουδ' ιαν δοκιμωμι προσιδοισαν φαος αλιω
CC BbBb AA A Bb GG CC Bb A FF CC Bb A GG A FF
Εσσεσθαι σοφιαν παρθενον εις ουδενα πω χρόνον

Tune for "Chickpeas", non-barbarous-meter High School (LP 143)

FG FD CC G A GG FE FF AG FF
Golden chickpeas upon the shore were born

2/1/26 19:21.

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 8

Fr. 1: He who's fair

Ἔσσι κἄγαθος ἢ κάλος ὄσσον ἴδην μὀνον;
Ma si' bonu, o ti fai sulu viriri beddu tu?
Are you good, or are you only beautiful as a show?
Pulcherne͜ ūnum utī videāris, an et bonu's?

Fr. 2: Money and virtue

Ὀ πλοῦτος ἄνευ τᾶς ἀρέτας οὐκ ἀσίνης, nun esti 'i
Nudda sicurizza senza la virtuti lu dinaru,
Virtūs cum abest, dīvitiǣ certa ferunt pericla
Money without virtue brings no certainty,

Fr. 3: I have a gentle mind

Gentle thus is my mind, ṙuçi è la,
Φρέν' ἔχω ἔγ' ἀβάκην, dulci' mihī cor est.

Fr. 4: Don't speak if you're angry

῎῎Υμμ' αἰ ἔπηλθ' ὄργα, if you're angry,
Κράσδετε μηδ' ἔν, don't shout at all ye,
Nun abbaiati si v'arraggiati,
Vōs taceātis īrā͜ adeunte.

Fr. 5: I don't expect to touch the sky

Nun esageru in zoccu mi spittu, i don't expect
Crazy things for me, οὐ δοκίμωμ' ἀνόητ' ἔγω,
Nōn quǣrō mihi follia͜ habēre quidem͜ umquam͜ ego.

Fr. 6: I don't think any girl

Οὔποτ' ἔσσεται ἄλλα σόφος οὔτω, nun nci hâ siri mai
Nu talentu accussì, never will there be such a skilful girl,
Numquam pvella erit sīcce perīta.

Fr. 7 is too short for a title, so just leave a black screen with "Fragment 7" and sing it.

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 9

Fr. 1: I saw Eros

Τὸν Ἔρωτα ϝίδον, vitti io a Eros, I saw Eros once,
En Erōta vidī.

Fr. 2: About Leda

Πὲρ Λήδαν, supra a Leda, about Leda's myth,
Lēdās ecce quidem mȳthus.

Fr. 3: About doves

Πὲρ περιστέραν, supr'a li palummi,
De columbīs ā, on those doves.

Fr. 4: Adonis is dying

Θρῆνον περ τῶ Ἀδώνε͜ως, song of mourning for Adonis,
Lúctús, eccum, Adōnis, cantu 'i luttu pi Adoni.

Fr. 5: Latona and Niobe

Λάτω καὶ Νιόβα, la storia ṙi Niobe e Latona,
Lātōna͜ et Niobē, Niobe and Latona's story

Fr. 6: Golden chickpeas

Chickpeas of gold, cicerēs aure͜ī, ἐρέβινθοι χρύσι͜οι,
Cìçiri d'òru criscèvanu đđà.

Tune for "A desire to die possesses me" Edmonds version (LP 95)

This is basically cr+gl | gl+iamb | phal, so I musicated a tercet that scanned that way (well, with an anaclasis, but that's easily fixable) and then remusicated the one line which starkly contrasted this meter.

AA F DD D^D^ A F^F^ D^ A GF Bb AA
Εἶπον· "Ὦ δέσποτ', ἔππαν ἀπωλόμαν,
DD EF GG Bb AA A D^ AA Bb AA
Οὐ μὰ γὰρ μάκαιραν ἔγω θέαν
AA F DF E Bb AA D^ AA D^ F^F^
Οὖδεν ἄδομ' ἔπαρθ' ἄγαν ἔτ' ὄλβῳ

AA F DD D^ A F^F^ | D^D^ AA GF Bb AA
Ἤ τι σᾶμ' ἐθέλης δεικνύναι τέαις

Tune for "About Leda" Edmonds version (LP 166)

A F# E GC# A B C#E C#C# B C# F#F# E EE
Φαῖσι δή ποτα Λήδαν ὐακίνθινον
C# D EE A D C#D BC#
πεπυκάδμενον ὤϊον
AB AA
εὔρην

Tune for "Woe for Adonis" (LP 168)

AG F G EE DD
ὦ τὸν Ἄδ‹ω›νιν

Tune for "Handmaid of Aphrodite" (LP inc .23)

FF A C BbBb C D CC A BbB G GA FF
χρυσοφάη‹ν› θερ[άπαιν]αν Ἀφροδίτ[ας

Tune for "Handmaid of Aphrodite" Edmonds version (LP inc .23)

FF A CC AA CBb A Bb AA Bb GG FF
Χρυσοφάνης ὦ Ϝεκάτα θέραπνα
CC G GA FF
Ἀφροδίτας

Tune for "Cytherea, Adonis is dying" (LP 140(a))

DD FA FF A D^ AA F^F^ E F D^D^ E^E^ F^ E^ F^E^ D^D^
κατθνάσκει, Κυθέρη’, ἄβρος Ἄδωνις· τί κε θεῖμεν;
DD AA FF A D^ AA AA A A BbC -> A Bb C^D^ AA A Bb GA DD
καττύπτεσθε, κόραι, καὶ κατερείκεσθε χίτωνας.

Intro for the translations episode for "A desire to die possesses me" (aka "Gongyla 2")

Σάμερον Ψάπφικον προφέρω σπάραγμ'
῎Υμμ' ἔγωγ' ἀπὸ διφθέρας
Ἔλθον ἂ μέρεός ποτ' ἐστερήθη

Δεξίω, κἄμμ' ἠμιστίχι' ἐσφέρει
Τὰ πόλλοισι τρόποσι συμ-
πληρόεσθ' ἐδύναντο δὴ͜ ἀλλόοισι.

Πέσσυρας λόγοις ὔμμιν ἀείσ' ἴᾳ
Τούτῳ τῷ σπαράγματι συν-
ταχθείσᾳ μελαοιδίᾳ. Ἀμείβει

Ὀ τρίτος λόγος τὰν μελαοιδίαν
Ἐπεὶ καὶ μέτρον ἄλλον αὖ φέρει.
Ἐς δὲ->τὰν Ἰταλίκαν μετέφρασ' αὖτος

Τοὶς λὀγοις πάντας, ὔμμι δ' ἀείσ' ἔγω
Ταῖς γλώσσαισι δύσιν νυ δή.
Πάντες τᾷ ἀκόᾳ γε χαίρετ' ὔμμες!

Oggi a voi un frammento di Saffo io
Voglio presentare, che vien
Da una pergamena di cui abbiamo

D'ogni riga soltanto l'inizio, ed in
Molti modi si può pensar
D'integrarli. Son quattro le versioni

Ch'or cantar vo' nell'originale gre-
co_e tradotte da me in Ita-
liano, nella musica che ho composto

per la seconda, salvo la terza, che
Cambia il metro e la musica. Ora a voi
Tutti voglio augurare un buon ascolto!

Phalecean hendecasyllabic goodbye

Ἀμέραν συνίημ' ἔγω καλίσταν
῎Υμμι! Buona giornata a tutti voi!
En, pulcherrimum auspicō diem_ipse
Vōbīs! Have a good day all ye who listened!

Greek-Italian 10/2/26 1:54, diacritics added for this post. Latin 12/2/26 1:00. English same day 1:01 with «all of you viewers, immediately changed to the above version.

Opening for the Sappho ob Doge Lesbos series

V1 [Ψάπφω α Λεσβία as] usual
V2 Ob Doge Lesbos [CCC GG C BBBBB B CCCCCC]
V3 April fools GGGGG G GGGG
V3 Ψάπφω [DDDDDD CCCCCC] | Actually V4 Dogespeak

11/2/26 19:03, [] parts added for the post, part from | is 19:06 tweak.

Intro for the translations episode for "I really wish I were dead" (aka "Tethnaken")

I assume δὰ (Πρῶτος δὰ συνέγραψ' ἔγω) and μετὸ (Εδμόνδζεος μετὸ τὰν τρίταν) are just typoes not actual corrections to be made.

Ψάπφικόν τι πόημ' ἔγω
Σάμερον προφέρ' ὔμμι, τ' ἂπ
Διφθέρας ἀμύδρας ἔχομέν γε, τᾶς

Ἐν μέσσῳ γ' ἔν' ὄπα μάκρα
Ἂ πόλλοισι τρόποισι συν-
πληρώθην ἀνίσοισ', ἔνιοι δέ μοι

Φαίνοντ' ἔμμεν ἄγᾱν μίκροι
Καὶ λείπην ἔτ' ὄπαν. Θέλ' ἐκ-
δόσεας πίσυράς νυν ἀείδεμεν.

Πρώταν τὰν μὲν ἐρείδ' ἔγω·
Ἐδμόνδζεος δὲ τὸ "Κὰπ πλόκων",
"Καὶ λώτων" ἐνόησα ἔγ' ἄρχικα,

Ἄτοπον δέ νυ φαίνεται,
Ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ τὸ μετέφρασα
Ὠς δύοιν θάτερον τὸ ἀείσ' ἔγω.

"Κάρᾳ σῷ" μίκρον εστ' ἄγᾱν,
Καὶ πρόσσω "πὰρ ὀπαυόνων"
Ἄγᾱν μίκρον, ἐν ᾦ "πὰρ ἄκρων τόνων"

Πρῶτος δὴ συνέγραψ' ἔγω,
Τοῦτο δ' οὐ βέβαόν μοί ἐσ-
τιν αἰ κῆθι πάρεστιν ἔπεικες αὖ.

Δευτέραν δὲ χρόνῳ λυκεί-
ω ἤρεισα "κάλον χρόα"
Λέγοισαν, καὶ ἔπειτα "κόμαν κάλαν"

Ὠς τὸ βλόγ γ' ἀνέῳξα, καὶ
Κήνας τᾶς γε δύοις στρόφας
Λόγοις δι͜αδοχίκως νυν ἀείσ' ἔγω.

Εδμόνδζεος μετὰ τὰν τρίταν,
Τετάρτ' εστι Τεδεσκέως,
Παίσαις Ἰταλίκαν γε μετέφρασ' ἐς

Γλῶσσαν καὶ μελαοιδίᾳ
Ἴᾳ καὶ γλώσσαισι δύσιν
Ἀείσω. Ἀκόᾳ δέ νυ χαίρετε!

Un frammento di Saffo a voi
Presentare oggi voglio, che
Vien da una pergamena sbiadita assai

Con in mezzo un gran buco inver
Che già tanti e diversi com-
pletamenti ha subito, ed alcuni a me

Paiono troppo corti per
Ben riempire quel buco. Ed or
Voglio quattro versioni cantare a voi.

Canto prima la mïa, che
Prende d'Edmonds i riccioli:
Fuori luogo parevano i loti che

Prima avevo proposto io;
Ma quei loti ho tradotto, e li
Canto come altra opzione. "Sul capo tuo",

Pur accolto al liceo, mi par
Troppo corto, come, più giù,
"Presso dolci compagne", al cui posto io

Ho per primo proposto le
Note acute, ma certo non
Son di quanto ben stian nel contesto qui.

La seconda versione è
Quella mia del liceo, e lì
"Il bel corpo" aprendo più tardi il blog

Ho cambiato in "la bella chio-
ma", e queste versioni or
Ambedüe in sequenza vi canterò.

È di Edmonds la terza ver-
sione, ed è di Tedeschi la
Quarta, ed in Italiano tradotte le ho

Tutte, e tutte le canto in due
Lingue e un'unica musica.
Auguro un buon ascolto a tutti voi!

Tethnaken-meter goodbye

Πάντεσσ' ἀμέραν γε κάλαν
Ἐπίημ'! Una buona giornata a voi!

9/4/26 2:21, diacritics added for this post.

Line introducing to alternate tercet in Tethnaken

As I recorded the Saffo di Lesbo multiversion video for the fragment, come the point where I needed this line, I just noticed the following was a glyconic:

Λόγος ἄλλος ἴας στρόφας

The recording was on 9/4/26, and this thing was read out starting 1:52:05, so I either noticed it then, or while preparing beforehand.

Line with a similar purpose but for Saffu in Siçilianu

Κείμεν' ἄλλα δύων στρόφαν
D^F^ A CC G Bb AA F DD

Tethnaken-meter goodnight

Υμμι νύκτα κάλαν! Buonanotte a voi!

Improvised 2/11/25 1:53.

Iambic-trimeter "alternate version" line

ἄλλος λόγος τις τᾶς τελευταίας στρόφας

10/5/26 1:28 specifically for fr. 13 here.

Tune for "One maidenhood I had" (LP 93)

C A G Bb A F C A C D F^
Ymos d'oyk line

24/5/26 13:08.

F G A F C A C G A F
Era libe [recte line]

13:11.

F^(E) D^ C A Bb C D Bb G C A

13:13, oxyboon line.

Tune for "Appear for us" (LP 92)

F G A C A D C D C Bb A [CC A CBb AA]
πεφιλημμ[έν]αν ἴσχυν, ὔδατι δὲ
F^ E^ C A (A)C A G A Bb (G)A F
κρίνον [ὠς ἀ]κήρατον παρὰ κράναν
F Cv C(Bb) A Bb C F F (G)A F F
πέπλον Χῖον ἀπύσχοισα λούεο·

Tune for "To her mother" (LP 9+)

FF C AA CD CC F^ D CC D CC AA
φαιδί]⌜⌟μ̣αν⌞ ὤ⌟ρᾳ τέλ⌝ε⌞[σαι; τὸ δ' ἐστὶ
BbBb A GG C AA C A ABb G GA FF
χάρμ' ἐ]⌜παμέ⌟ρων· ἔμ⌞⌝[ε δ' εὔφρον' εἴη
EE Bb GG CBb CC A D CC F^ DD BbB
τυγχά]⌜ν̤η̣ν̤, θ̣⌟ᾶς ἄμ⌞⌝[μι θέοι δίδωσι
CC A Bb AG FF
φθόγγ]⌜ο̣ν ἄκο⌟υσαι⌞⌝

Tune for "On wounds" (LP 37)

D^ F^ D^D^ E^ CC AA
‹–u–x–› κατ' ἔμον στάλαγμον
CC G AA BbC AA F^ E^ D^D^ F^ E^E^ CC
Τὸν δ' ἐπιπλάζοντ’ ἄνεμοι φέροιεν
AG F G FE DD
καὶ μελέδωναι.

6/6/26, l. 1 20:36, rest 20:38.

Tune for "Fairest of all stars" (LP 104(b))

FF C AA DD CC F^ D CC D
Asteron panton o kalistos

6/6/26 20:39.

FF C BbBb
Asteron

8/6/26 3:18.

Tune for "That hymn, o Muse" (C. test. 8)

CBb A CBb G AA F C DC D CC AA
Κῆνον, ὦ χρυσόθρονε Μοῖσ', ἔνισπες
BbBb A GG CBb AA C D CC C F^F^ CC
ὔμνον, ἐκ τᾶς καλλιγύναικος ἔσθλας
BbD G BbBb ABb AA C D CC E F^F^ DD
Τήιος χώρας ὂν ἄειδε τέρπνως
CC A Bb AG FF
πρέσβυς ἄγαυος.

Tune for "If only (prayer)" (LP 33)

DF Bb AA A D^D^ F^ E^ D^D^ E^ CC AA
Aith' ego chrysostephan' Aphrodita,
BbBb G AA BbBb AA A G FF E EF DD
Tonde ton palon g' eraton lakhoien

13/6/26, l. 1 16:7, l. 2 prob. within 16:19 def. within 16:22 as «BbBb G AA BbBb A G FF E EF DD» fixed 14/6/26 2:52..

Tune for "Hither o Graces" (LP 128)

F^C D Bb CC FF D C BbBb EE C Bb GA F AG FF
Deyte nyn abrai Charites kallikomoi de Moisai

13/6/26, «CBb C G AA FF C A CC» 16:25, «F^C D Bb CC FF D C BbBb» 16:28, both up to Charites, compl. 16:29.

Tune for "Rosy-armed Graces" (LP 53)

F A CD C A BbBb AA D C CC F^D C D CC Bb AA
Brodopachees agnai Kharites deyte dios korai

13/6/26 16:33.

Tune for "Hither again o Muses" (LP 127)

CBb A BbA G AG FF CD C AA Bb AG FF
Deyro deyte Moisai khrysion lipoisai

13/6/26 16:35.

Tune for "To Calliope" (LP 124)

FG FF A Bb AA C D CC
Ayta de sy Kalliopa

13/6/26 16:36.

Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), my version

D A GG Bb A GG C AA A Bb AA E EF DD
πτερύγων δ᾽ ὔπα κακχέει λιγύραν ἀοίδαν,
D^ A FF A F GG Bb AA D^ Bb AA G EF DD
ὄποτα φλόγιόν ‹κ’› ἐπιπτάμενον καταύ‹γ›ῃ

15/6/26, l. 1 1:24, l. 2 started 1:24 with «D^ A FF A G AA» up to k' then compl. 1:25, with «A G AA» for φλόγιον turning to «A F GG» 5/7/26 12:08.

Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Voigt version

D^ A FF D A GG Bb A
[xx–] πτερύγων δ' ὔπα
GG C AA A Bb GG E EF DD
κακχέει λιγύραν ἀοίδαν
GG C AA A Bb GG E EF EF DD
ταν† ἐπιπτάμενον †καταυδείη†

Ll. 1-2 taken from Voigt-Gorini below, l. 3 made for inmetrical non-fixed version 15/6/26 1:33.

Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Voigt-Gorini version

D^ A FF D A GG Bb A
[xx–] πτερύγων δ' ὔπα
GG C AA A Bb GG E EF DD
κακχέει λιγύραν ἀοίδαν
GG C AA A Bb GG E EF EF DD
ταν† ἐπιπτάμενον †καταυδείη†

Altered from my version 15/6/25 1:30.

Tune for "About the cicada" (LP Alc. 347(b), V 101A), Edmonds version

D^ A FF D A GG Bb A
πτερύγων δ' ὐπακακχέει
G C AA A BbC GG E F DD A FF
λιγύραν ἀοίδαν, ὄποτα φλόγι
D^ A FF D A GG Bb A
ὀ ‹θέος› κα‹τ›έτᾳ ‹γάα›ν
GG C AA A Bb GG E EF DD
ἐπι‹πε›πτάμενον καταύ‹γ›η

15/6/26 1:32.

Tune for "Stand before me" (LP 138), my version

D GF# G AB A BC B E^ E^D^ G^ D^D^
[Σὺ] στᾶθι ‹τυίδε› κἄντα‹έ μ' αὖ› φίλος,
D^C BB B DD BB AA C B AA B GG
καὶ τὰν ἐπ' ὄσσοις ὀμπέτασον χάριν.

16/6/26, l. 1 2:16, l. 2 2:17.

Tune for "You came" (LP 48+), my version 1

F^E^ CC CD C D CC A Bb AA C A GG BB AA -> GG A FF
ἦλθες, κά‹λ'› ἐπόησας, ἔγω δέ σ᾿ ἐμαιόμαν,
FF CC AA A D CC C Bb AA A D CC F^ CC
ὂν δ᾿ ἔ‹ψυ›ξας ἔμαν φρένα καιομέναν πόθῳ·

16/6/26, l. 1 up to egō 2:27 rest 2:28, l. 2 2:28.

Tune for "You came" (LP 48+), Edmonds version)

F^D CC DC Bb CD CC A Bb AA D C
Ἦλθες· κεὖ ἐποίησας· ἔγω δέ σε
A Bb AA FF CC AA G A FF D C
μαόμαν, ὂν δ' ἔφλαξας ἔμαν φρένα
F^D C D BbBb D CC AA Bb A DC C
καυομέναν πόθῳ· χαῖρ' ἄμμι, ‹χαῖρε›
AA Bb AA FF C AA G A FF D C
πόλλα καὶ ϝισάρῑθμα τόσῳ χρόνῳ
FF CC DD Bb D CC ABb AA
ἀλλάλαν ἀπελείφθημεν. –u-

16/6/26, l. 1 2:35, l. 5 2:37, l. 3 2:37, l. 2 2:45, l. 4 2:46.

Tune for "On wounds, joined" (LP 36+37)

CE G AD^ C^C^ GA C Bb AA [D GA FF->EE
Καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι [μὲν αὔτα
AA D FF Bb AA] D^ F^ D^D^ E^ CC AA
Πόλλ' ἀσαμένα] κατ' ἔμον στάλαγμον·
CC G AA BbC AA F^ E^ D^D^ F^ E^E^ CC
Τὸν δ' ἐπιπλάζοντ’ ἄνεμοι φέροιεν
AG F G FE DD
καὶ μελέδωναι.

18/6/26 9:46-9:48.

Titles for Saffu in Siçilianu episode 13

Πὲρ τῶ τέττιγος ἢ πὲρ θέρεος, Riguardu â çicala
O a li fiammi di la stati chi tuttu nni nziccùmanu
Αλκαιω μονον εντηλυ γε τουτ', esti n'intrusu 'i Alceo
Chistu prubabbilmenti.

Tune for "Stand before me" (LP 138), my revised version

D AG B AA F# BC# B C# D^D^ G^ F#^F#^
[Σὺ] στᾶθι ‹τυίδε› κἄντα‹έ μ' αὖ› φίλος,
D^C BB B D^D^ BB AA C B AA B GG
καὶ τὰν ἐπ' ὄσσοις ὀμπέτασον χάριν.

Modified from my version 5/7/26, l. 1 12:59-13:00, l. 2 13:02.

gl2d goodbye

Πάντεσσίν γε κάλαν ἐπίημί νυν ἀμέραν!
Una buona giornata ora auguro a tutti voi!

5/7/26, l. 1 14:47, l. 2 14:48, diacritics added and "buons" corrected for this post.

Friday, 2 May 2025

The stars, the moon, and the official languages of Europe

So, today we have a Sappho fragment. We've already seen it here and also here, as well as in the various editions: it's the one about the stars around the moon, LP 34. Alongside the idea described at the sister post of this titled «Le stelle, la luna, e i dialetti italiani», I had the idea of making an episode for every continent, translating this thing to one official language per country of that continent. So let's see what I got for Europe:

German from , dated «around 19 on 5/3/21, with the corrections suggested around 19:45 by this comment;
Italian, version 2 from the edition, for Italy, whose translation «inizia con i primi due versi all'1:33 dell'1/9/25, e finisce col resto il giorno dopo alle 13:39» (stars with the first two lines at 1:33 on 1/9/25 and ends with the rest the next day at 13:39); I replace version 1 with version 2 here, saving version 1 in its latest revision for the Italian dialects post;
English for the UK from the post with the German, dated to «the night between 28 and 29/3/21, specifically around 1:25»; well that's version 1, version 2 is dated 11/2/26 18:48 and is inspired by its Wolof and Dogespeak counterparts in inverting everything; basically an inverslation from Greek to English instead of from Japanese :); «around it again will hide» then changes to «around it again then hide» 3/3/26 0:18 and to «around it once more then hide» at 0:19;
Modern Greek for Greece, dated 21/1/25 19:32-19:54, the better of two versions that will appear in the Greek anthology (or have appeared if the anthology has been launched, which it hasn't as of 29/10/25); actually, I'm gonna dump like half a billion versions over here :); it's 2/7/26 today and that anthology has yet to see launch day; let's list them all;
So, the oldest is dated 15/12/24 2:25-2:37, and is not the one I originally included here; that one is dated as stated before, and is actually a Frankenstein the way it originally appeared here, with the switch to φεγγάρι but still αργυρή και γεμάτη; these are versions 1 and 2;
Then, 21/6/26 21:46, I was like, the heck is this word order? So I moved the astra to l. 1 and shoved the pali into l. 2, resulting in the first half of version 3 after changing «Αποκρύπτουν πάλι το φως των όψεων» into the l. 2 from there;
Then I kept going: «Όλο το φως των πάλι τ' αποκρύπτουν or πάλι όλο το φως των τ' αποκρύπτουν, perhaps?» (21:49), «Το λαμπρό των είδος το κρύβουν πάλι» (21:51), and finally «Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος» (21:53), thus getting to version 4, put together at 21:54 and still a Frankenstein;
And then I was like, ooh, same word order in the first half! Can we do the same in the second? And the answer was a billion attempts and a sad negative at the end; keeping the same first half, we have version 5 at 21:55, still Frankenstein, then version 6 at 22:03, version 7 at 22:04, looking for another word for "silver", the attempt «Όταν, ασημένιο, τη γη προπάντων / Τη καταλάμπει», which unfortunately «Loses γεμάτο», at 22:07, version 8 at 22:08, version 9 at 22:11 reinserting ologiomo (or inserting it anew from Elytis), version 10 at 22:14 and version 11 at 22:16, going further with Elytis inspirations, version 12 at 22:17, getting that asimokapnismenio and giving up on propantos, version 13 and «... λάμπει στη γη, και αργυ / ρό και ολόγιομο» discarded with «definitely not» at 22:19, version 14 at 22:22, version 15 and its improvement version 16 both at 22:23, and version 17, last attempt, at 22:27; I will now include them below and choose as default the one I like best;
Albanian for Albania, with initial version dated 8/4/25 14:13-14:37; aiming to do Gheg (Kosovar) Albanian for Kosovo to avoid duplicates; the Corrected version was sent 27/9/25 23:09 with comment «Così è un po più definita diciamo, and I fixed the meter 23:24-23:30 as per Metrical 1, and Metrical 2 is from 23:40;
French for France, dated 9/4/25 8:43-8:45;
Hungarian for Hungary, dated 10/4/25 13:24-15:03, an actual Sapphic stanza;
Spanish for Spain, dated 10/4/25 20:39-20:47 with plata suggested 23:37 and endorsed at 12:05 on 5/5/25 by my consultant, discarding argento which "non si usa";
Czech for the Czech republic, dated 11/4/25 11:04-13:34, an actual Sapphic stanza; that's talking about version 1; then on 31/12/25 I asked Quoran L.M. to comment on it, and he pointed out problems, so while responding I think of «Hvězdy kol Měsíca», at Idk what time before 11:40, and at 12:05 I complete the line, completing a complete remake by 12:14: thus, version 2;
Slovak for Slovakia, dated 24/4/25 16:21-17:20, another actual Sapphic stanza; I hoped to quickly Slovakify the Czech, but no luck, kolem -> okolo just didn't fit the meter, and měsíc becoming mesiac too, and more such changes;
Central Bavarian, taken from the Italian dialects project, where it is dated to 10/5/25 1:43:>30;
BCMS (Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian) for one of the four countries, still have to figure those out; it came in its original form completely out of the blue 4/6/25 21:09/10, then I tried to make it metrical as per version Metrical-1 10/6/25 23:42 - 11/6/25 0:54, but several errors were in there; lots of back and forth with the author of the original version, namely Transatlantic on Quora, led to versions Metrical-2 and Metrical-3 at 12:52:48 on that same 11/6, and eventually, with more interactions, I got to the final version at 18:37:36 on the same day, which unfortunately «doesn't read like good poetry in Croatian. For several reasons: The filler words (sve, tu, našu) sound a lot of like pop or rock song writing from the 60s to the 90s, where they often used to add words just because they needed an extra syllable. Also, the non-canonical word order sounds unnecessarily perturbed (just to shoehorn the words into the desirec metre)», according to Transatlantic, but then again, I need something to sing to the tune;
Portuguese for Portugal, made specifically to pair it with Spanish and have something to pair with BCMS when adding it here, i.e. made 12/6/25 16:16-16:19. Again, tried to Portuguesify the Spanish, ended up stuck at "cercano" :). I sent it to an Angolan friend, JCL, who sent the homonymous version at 7:42 on 6/4/26. Of course that was heavily unmetrical, so I tried to tweak my version to compromise, and ended up with the Final version, to which he had nothing to say. Not sure why I kept "toda a sua luz" when I was doing "com sua luz", for consistency I dropped the "a" at 16:53:1x on 22/5/26 as I implemented this stuff here.
And then, after the "corrections" (he wasn't correcting me, just translating the beautiful poem into refined Portuguese) to Vossa sou, I asked MH for comments to this translation, and boom, Pandora's box opened :).
First and foremost, in a long comment from betw. 11:48 and 11:50 on 18/5/26, he points out the Brazilian lack of articles, stating Portugal Portuguese would go «Cada estrela esconde toda a sua luz» and «quando com a sua luz prateada ela / enche a Terra», and expressing confusion about l. 2. So I look up "cerca" and whoops, it is not a preposition; the preposition I'm looking for is "perto"; thus, at 12:28 or 12:29, I reply with version aMH1. This stands for "ad MH", sent to MH (whether via DMs or via comments) or assembled from suggestions sent to him, vs. just MH which are the ones sent by him or put together from his suggestions. The actual aMH1 had "Las estrelas toda a sua luz esconden", which I fixed below. Also, prateado is pronounced pratjado in Portugal, making aMH1 inmetrical as l. 3 is one syllable short. But I've only realized this on 22/5/26 as I put this here at 0:45.
His next comment states this new l. 2 is "perfect, gorgeous", and proposes MH1 and MH2 as "300% spotless". Unfortunately, neither is metrical: MH1 has the prateado problem, MH2 lucks out of it but has l. 1 inmetrical because the inversion of object and verb doesn't work in the plural. That comment is from 12:40.
After I point out, within 12:47, that «It's not the stars that fill the earth with silver light, it's the moon. Ela is a luna, not cada estrela», he fixes MH2 to MH2b, noting that «“e quando” from the 2nd to the 3rd verses makes it perfectly clear that the Moon is emitting the light», sometime between 12:48 and 12:50.
I then try to be more literal with aMH2 aMH3 aMH4, where I first make ll. 1-2 very literal, and then fix the ending to recover the μάλιστα. This happens in a comment from between 12:1 and 12:43, edited at 12:46-12:47 to add aMH3-4.
His next comment, from somewhere between 13:01 and 13:03, proposes MH3 and MH4, noting that «“cara” immediately references a person’s face/the anatomical human face».
I then play around with those suggestions, producing the incipits of aMH5 and aMH6 at 13:13 and 13:15 respectively. Given that timestamping comments is a fool's errand while DMs are automatically timestamped, I write a long sum-up message at 18:15:44. In doing so, I try to avoid that verb-object inversion. At 18:01, I think of «’Scondem outra vez seus brilhantes rostos», which is a Brazilian-Portugal mix ('Sconde is Portugal, seus without os is Brazilian), so nope. Passing through «’Sconde do seu rosto outra vez a luz» (18:04) and «’Sconde do seu rosto de novo a luz» (18:05), I get to aMH7 at 18:06. As for the plural version, I try to go Brazilian on it, doing first «Os brilhantes rostos de novo escondem» (18:08), with the inversion, hoping Brazilian finds it OK, and then get aMH8 at 18:10. I also mention to him all the "Stars and the moon" projects, and the Portuguese-Spanish anthology I have in mind to do. I actually have Portuguese-Romanian-Bulgarian-Aquilano in mind, but maybe let's make that simpler since I need to do Spanish anyway for a larger anthology modeled on this German one.
We now transition into the night, thus 19/5/26. At 0:30, when he's finally home and can work on his computer, using his funky sleep schedule as an opportunity (he's about as funky as me with his sleep schedule it seems :) ), he replies, proposing MH5 which is aMH7 plus an "a luz do rosto" line singularized from aMH6. In my 2:57 reply, I propose aMH9, which is MH5 with "a luz do seu rosto" instead of "a luz do rosto", and aMH6 again, but with the option "dos rostos". The idea is to perhaps use the latter for Brazil in the Soouth America project, and the former for this project.
And then he sees the English below, the second version, and at 2:59 the next night (20/5) he comments «This is a beautiful piece of text. The Portuguese you have there on your blog (for this fragment) is sheer mediocrity, which you already knew, or suspected, probably. What we’ve (you have) written yesterday is language-wise spotless, namely, both singular and plural. From a translator online, he comes to the following English from the Greek: «The stars around the bright moon / Hide away their shining face(s), / Whenever, at her fullest, / She illuminates the earth with silver», producing MH6 from there.
I reply at 4:34 with a literal English: «The stars around the beautiful moon / Once again hide (their) luminous form / When, full, (she) more than anything (or more than ever, μάλιστα is ambiguous like that) enlightens, / Silvery, the Earth», and aMH10, the consequent literal Portuguese, plus aMH11, an incomplete attempt at being inspired by his MH6, and aMH12 and aMH13, which are completions of that, the latter one picking the "do" back up which I dropped in the former's "Mais de qualquer cosa".
In his next message, at 12:40 or 12:41 the next day (20/5), he sends aMH13, aMH10 with "mais do que nunca" chosen, and MH7. This message is probably also the only case of "400%" amidst quite the number of "300%" :).
I reply in two parts by accident. The accidental first part, from 16:48, dissects the inmetricalities of MH7, and proposes an initial fix «Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e a / Deixa só em prata». While making my 17:15:04 second part of the reply, I suggest to just move só to l. 4, and then to do as just said. While I write, I send to myself «Outra vez escondem a luz do aspecto» (17:02), «O brilhante aspecto outra vez escondem» (17:02), «Esse aspecto outrora brilhante escondem» (17:05), «… a Terra e / Deixa-a só em prata.» (17:06), «Mira! Junto à Lua outra vez as ‘strelas» (17:11, I wonder if I had Elbano in mind here, or if Mira is just because Spanish), and «Novamente em torno da Lua as ‘strelas» (17:12). The reply then stitches these bits together into aMH14 and aMH15. But that plural still has the inversion!
And indeed, in his reply at 0:11 on 21/5/26, he chastises it. He starts by approving the Deixa-a fix (a deixa -> Deixa-a), saying «The “só” wasn’t actually needed; “e deixa a Terra em prata” would have been fine/lovely. I added it because I though it needed an extra syllable, lol. However, the cosmic energies at work: the “só” in “deixa-a só em prata” doesn’t mean the same as (in) “… e deixa só a Terra em prata.” Your “só” works as the silverness entirely covering the Earth, which is very pretty, while the “só” in mine means “only” and doesn’t add (nor subtract much) to the meaning», and coming to ll. 1-2, «But the first two are not [semantically perfect and gracious]. It’s not only unnatural (Portuguese) but it has no discernible meaning, because of “brilhante escondem” — it doesn’t work». He proposes vê instead of "inescapably Spanish"-sounding Mira, and puts together MH8 MH9 MH10, all three of which come from a Frankenstein stitching of options that loses the escondem. «This last one reads/feels like a Quinhentista poem». [Whoops! MH8 = MH9, so I'm just skipping MH9 below :).]
I then reply at 0:44, again on 21/5/26, with aMH16, noting the terrible o-aspecto hiatus, the probably even worse synaeresis o seu-aspecto, which isn't in aMH16, and that putting outrora before brilhante produces an anaclasis. Also, «Btw, does the outrora imply the stars no longer shine? Because the idea is that the moon shines brighter than them all, not that they stop shining. The poem probably went on to compare the moon to a woman and the stars to the others, saying that woman X outshines the others in beauty, i.e. is more beautiful than them all, much like what is seen in fr. 1 of the anthology» (that being Arignota). Since his message says «Do not change the last two. They’re absolute perfection», I don't even include them in mine.
He replies between 0:54 and 0:56, chastizing the "brilhante outrora" («[Your proposals for l. 2] don’t work, again, because of “brilhante outrora” — no adverb can follow “brilhante.”»), and noting «No, it doesn’t imply the stars no longer shine», because, as he says in the second part of his entry (he also fell victim to an early Enter press, and his second part of reply is from the same timeframe), the tão and escondem together imply something of diminishing intensity, not something that stopped shining.
He then comes back between 2:29 and 2:31 with MH11 as I'm editing the third Sappho Direct Tradition video for "I truly wish I were dead", and I reply between 3:01 and 3:03 with the l. 2 options of aMH17, which I have below implemented into aMH16.
He comes back with MH12 at 3:24 (well the first half anyway, the second half is fixed by now), also saying he wanted quão in there but couldn't figure out how. At 11:48 next morning (so it's 21/5 now), he says «'Scondem o brilhante da sua luz is spotless but leaves “again” out [once again hide (their) luminous form], but as far as the stars and shadowing/obscuration go, it’s the closest to the original». Not really. That's the result of looking only at single lines. The "again" is in l. 1 of aMH17. We have, however, lost the bela, I point out in my 13:07:52 reply. Thus, aMH18, where l. 1 changes because the first form «causes -la_ou- to be a single syllable, which is a bit forced», and as for l. 2, «Of the two l. 2 options, I’d tend to prefer the first one, as the second one leaves luz as two notes long which isn’t particularly nice. However, leaving ‘scondem on two weak beats of the tune is also not great. Perhaps «O brilhante da sua luz escondem»? That does force pronouncing the e- though, so maybe «O brilhante da sua luz ocultam»?». I also ask him what quão use he had in mind at 13:09:44.
His reply at 13:32 or 13:33 curiously approves the inverted ocultam version (I guess the culprit wasn't the inversion but escondem?), and concludes with «“Quão brilhante” is what I wanted(it’s the most natural, but I couldn’t see where “escondem” would fit, and I also had “aspecto” in mind; I didn’t want to let go of “aspecto” (last night)».
I set myself to work on that, and at 14:21:04 I send the starts of aMH19 and aMH20 (the endings are, of course, the usual second half that is by now fixed), and produce the start of aMH21 at 14:26:24. These all work, says he, but faz would be preferable. Faz esconder (an 18:52 idea) would force the e- to be pronounced, which is not Portugal Portuguese. I think I'll keep the deixa.
However, as I put this here on 22/5, I try to sing it, and that synaeresis with só-em does not come natural. At 2:41, I consider «Deixa-a na/de prata», then at 2:43, also partly convinced by Google text to speech, I decide to just drop the só and keep the hiatus. Thus, we have the final (hopefully) version.
Latin for the Vatican, also found here; we have the high school Latin, «Within 22/5/10, twk. betw. 26/7/10 and 16/8/10 | SP1 residue tweaked in S5»; the right-hand improvement at Sparse translations of Sappho into "unconventional" languages, dated 3/5/25 13:01-13:02; and the l. 2 from 16:38-16:39 on 7/9/25, which places the translation here;
Italian, version 3 from the edition, for San Marino, again to avoid duplicates; dated to 1:09 on 3/9/25, where the choice of last line that discarded «Piena, argentata» was made at 21:11 on 6/9/25; thought of trying a San Marino Romagnol version, but the Fb group for S.M. doesn't respond, and I don't know that variety of Romagnol; the change from Ella to S'ella is from 31/12/25 3:10;
Turkish for Cyprus; this started 7/11/25 21:31-21:37, producing «Oh! Yıldızlar, bak, ışıklarını / Saklıyorlar ayın etrafında», which has both lines one syllable short; I abandon it because I'm in the middle of a video and can't listen to Google for stress placements; I come back to it on 20/12/25, producing, with a bunch of work, «Bak! Güzel ayın çevresinde tekrar / Yıldızlar ışığını saklıyorlar» as a first half at 14:46-15:28; not sure why I decide to try «Bak! Güzel ayın çevresinde tekrar / Yıldızlar <x> gizleniyorlar eğer» at 15:50, after thinking a bunch; eventually, since that form is an adonian on its own, I decide to switch halves, getting «Yıldızlar ışıltılarıyla tekrar / GizleniyorlarÆ at 16:15 for the second half of the Turkish, which matches the first one of the original; as for the other half, I already had dolunay for the full moon, and add Simli to it at 16:18, then I keep going and complete the half at 16:47;
Romanian for Romania and Moldova, done by me 14/11/25 21:53-22:11 and approved by a consultant on 19/12/25;
Bulgarian for Bulgaria, done by me 14/11/25 22:14-22:35 and approved by a consultant;
Macedonian for North Macedonia, which I hoped would be an easy fix from Bulgarian, but besides осветява->осветлува (14/11/25 22:44 as the only thing needing a fix according to Google Translate) I had to remake basically everything 18/11/25 16:18-16:43;
Russian for Russia, done 17/11/25 20:13-20:35 in original version and sent as such to AG; he replies 11/12/25 0:47, fixing све to все and опе́т to опят́ь, and pointing out и́хний is colloquial; I of course accept the first two as such, but их leaves a one-syllable gap, so I ask for help at 1:35; at 9:00 he notes скрыва́ю should be скрыва́ют to be plural, and свой is more appropriate, being the reflexive possessive; with that, he suggests Свой блестящий облик or Свой облик блестящий, and since it's о́блик I choose the former at 9:13; in the same 9:00 message he also points out Russian is not pro-drop, so I need an она́ in the second half, and suggests changing краси́вой to прекра́сной; to add that pronoun, I try Если͜ она́ мир све́том <u-u>, по́лна- / я͜ и серебри͜стая, with the gap being thought of as a "fills" or "inundates"; in an 11:00 recap, I then send the two modified versions below, with the note that I am unable to fill that gap;
11/12/25 23:37 he suggests using серебри́ть and omitting свет, and at 23:43 he suggests по́лниться and warns agains the synalephe I'm making in l. 4, thus disqualifying the Если version; from there, I suggest the Modified 3 version at 1:36 the following night, which at 3:45 is rejected because even as са́мая я́сная (can't use the short form jasna there) it wouldn't work; 4:22 I ask for clarification, and 4:32 he replies the short form is mostly used predicatively, and the appropriate elative is прея́сная, whence, at 9:00, I come up with Modified 4, the final version for now, which is pending approval;
Finnish for Finland, done 18/11/25 21:31-21:57 in original form and posted as such on Quora; JV then gives a first batch of comments 25/11/25 15:42, from which I get the final form of lines 1 and 3-4 at 15:58 and an attempt at l. 2 «Tähti kätkee –u valonsa kirkkaan» at 16:03; JV then suggests kaikki valonsa kirkkaat at 16:28, so that's that;
Catalan for Andorra, done 19/11/25 20:54-21:10;
Romansh for Switzerland, done 19/11/25 21:12-21:32;
Dutch for the Netherlands and Belgium, done 23/11/25 18:47-19:08 and approved with a spello fix (schoone->schone) later that evening;
Polish for Poland, done 23/11/25 19:12-19:28;
Slovene for Slovenia, done 7/12/25 15:04-15:32 and approved by A.G.;
Danish for Denmark, done 22/12/25 21:58-22:30 with tweaks 23/12/25 13:39 and 21:38;
Swedish for Sweden, done 22/12/25 22/12/25 22:31-22:47 basically Swedifying the Danish;
Nynorsk for Norway, done 23/12/25 13:35-13:53 basically Nynorskizing the Danish;
Gheg Albanian for Kosovo, done 23/12/25 20:43-21:12 and pending "small corrections" from G.S.;
Icelandic for Iceland, done 23/12/25 21:56-22:29;
Luxembourgish for Luxembourg, done with great difficulty 3/1/25 22:14-23:39; the last line is not convincing, but neither are «Eis jo beléift Welt» and «Eis generéis Welt», while «Eis erstaunt Welt» and «Eis léift grouss Welt» are cheating, and the latter one in two ways, as we split a diphthong AND go against the meter anyway getting –u– – –;
Maltese for Malta, done 12/6/26, the literal version at 12:5112:58 + 14:04-14:45, the metrical version at 14:48-15:21, with a doubt as to whether it should be sabiħ qamar or qamar sabiħ formalized 15/6/26 17:02:0x;

The plan is to do (* means version entirely missing):

Icelandic for Iceland;
Irish* for Ireland;
English, Welsh*, Scottish Gaelic*, and Saint* for the UK;
Portuguese for Portugal;
Spanish for Spain;
Catalan for Andorra;
Italian for Italy;
Latin for the Vatican;
Other Italian for San Marino;
French and Italian for Monaco;
French for France;
Romansh for Switzerland, maybe with double voices for the other three official languages;
German for Liechtenstein;
Luxembourgish for Luxembourg;
French and Dutch for Belgium;
Dutch and one Frisian* for the Netherlands;
German and Upper Sorbian* for Germany;
Danish and Faroese* for Denmark;
Nynorsk for Norway;
Swedish for Sweden;
Finnish for Finland;
Estonian* for Estonia;
Latvian* for Latvia;
Lithuanian* for Lithuania;
Polish for Poland;
Slovak for Slovakia;
Czech for the Czech republic;
German and Central Bavarian for Austria;
Serbo-Croatian and Ruthenian* for Croatia;
Serbo-Croatian and English for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dayton Agreement);
Serbo-Croatian and Gheg Albanian for Montenegro;
Albanian for Albania;
Modern Greek for Greece;
Cypriot Greek* and Turkish for Cyprus;
Maltese for Malta;
Gheg Albanian for Kosovo;
Macedonian for North Macedonia;
Bulgarian for Bulgaria;
Serbo-Croatian and Rusyn for Serbia;
Hungarian for Hungary;
Romanian for Romania;
Romanian, Ukrainian* and Russian for Moldova;
Ukrainian* for Ukraine;
Belarusian* for Belarus;
Russian for Russia.

As you can see, still a long way to go.

Greek original:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Irish for Ireland:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Scottish Gaelic for the UK:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Saint for the UK:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Spanish for Spain:

Cada estrella toda su luz esconde
Si la linda luna le está cercana,
Llena, mientras que todo el mundo llena
Con luz de plata.

Italian for Italy and Monaco:

Nuovamente intorno alla bella luna
La brillante faccia le stelle ascondon
Or che piena argentea più che mai ri-
splende sul mondo.

Italian for San Marino:

Nuovamente celan la loro luce
Or le stelle intorno alla bella luna,
S'ella più che mai sulla Terra splende,
Piena e d'argento.

Romansh for Switzerland:

Oh! Las stailas zuppan puspè la fatscha
Lur de glitsch enturn a la bella glina
Cu, paschaivla e tuta d'argent, traglischa
Sur el noss mund.

Luxembourgish for Luxembourg:

Verstoppen - kuck! - d'Stären erëm 'lo hiert Liicht
Ronderëm de' Mound well erëm de Vollmound,
Schéine', fëllt mat sëlweregem hellem Liicht
Eis oh jo léift.

Some Frisian for the Netherlands:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Danish for Denmark:

Stjernerne nu rundtom den smukke/skønne måne
Gemmer lyset klart deres en anden gang, mens,
Fuld og sølvrig, den over verden skinner,
Lysest på himlen.

Nynorsk for Norway:

Stjernene no rundt om den vakre månen
Gøymer ljoset klart sit en annen gong, då,
Full og sølvrig, den, over verda skin, på
Himmelen ljosaste.

Original
Final

Finnish for Finland:

Ympärilleen Kuun upean jokainen
Tähti kirkkaan kaikki valonsa kätkee
Kun, hopeinen, Maan yli täysikuun kirk-
kaasti helotti.

Finnish for Finland:

Ympärille Kuun upean jokainen
Tähti kätkee kaikki valonsa kirkkaat
Täysikuu kun Maan yli kuin hope͜a kirk-
kaasti kumottaa.

Latvian for Latvia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Polish for Poland:

Gwiazdy wokół pięknej księżyca znowu
Wygląd ich błyszczący chowają wszystek;
Ona, pełna i srebrna, nad świecie świeci
Bardziej niž wszystko.

Slovak for Slovakia:

Hľa, schovávajú všetok jas teraz svoj
Hviezdy blízko splnu zatiaľ čo, krásny
I streborný, on naplni svet, ó, svo-
jím svetlom jasným.

Central Bavarian for Austria:

Rings um’ scheanan Mond, då vadecken freili
Stean um Stean ia glänzentigs Gsichtej, während
Söwa, voj, in Glånz, den ma sischt nit wåanimp,
Ea auf die Erd’ scheid.

Central Bavarian for Austria:

riŋs umː ʃɛ̃a̯nɐn Moːnd dɔ fɐdekn̩ frai̯li
ʃtɛ̃a̯n um ʃtɛ̃a̯n iɐ̯ glɛnʦɛntigs gsiçtɛi̯ vɛrend
søːva voi̯ in glɔnʦ den ma siʃt nit vɔɐ̯nimp
ɛɐ̯ au̯f di ɛɐ̯d ʃãi̯d.

Central Bavarian for Austria:

Around the beautiful moon, lo, there certainly hides
Star after star its shining little face, as
Itself, full, in a splendor that one doesn't feel otherwise,
It shines over the Earth.

Ruthenian (Cyrillic) for Croatia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

BCMS (Cyrillic) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Около дивнога мјесеца звијезде
Изнова скрију светлуцав свој лик
Када год он пун понајјаче сја
Свуд по землји посребреној.

BCMS (Cyrillic) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Све звијезде мјесеце близу красног
Светлуцав свој лик крију͜ опет, кад он, пун
И сребрен, ту землју попливи ража-
ма светлости свог.

BCMS (Cyrillic) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Све звијезде у близини мјесеца
Красонга свој светло опет крију све
Кад, пун и сребрен, попуни светла зра-
ком нашу землју.

BCMS (Cyrillic) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Све звијезде у близини мјесеца
Красонга свој светло опет крију све
Кад, пун и сребрен, пуни он светла зра-
ком нашу землју.

BCMS (Cyrillic) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Све звијезде у близини мјесеца
Красонга свој светло опет крију све
Кад, пун, он сребра зракама преплави
Ту нашу землју.

Albanian for Albania:

Yjet t' gjith' përreth hënës shum' së bukur
Prap' tani fytyrën të ndritsh'm e fshehin,
Ësht' e plot' ajo, edhe Tok'n e mbush me
Rreze t' argjendtë.

Albanian for Albania:

Gjitha yjet perreth henes shum te bukura
Akoma tani fshehin fytyren e ndritshme,
Ajo eshte e plote e toka mbush
me rrezet e argjente.

Albanian for Albania:

Yjët k'tu rreth hënës së bukura, shoh,
Fshehin përsëri gjithë(?) drit'n e tyre
Kur ajo, e plote, me argjendin e saj
Mbush këtë Tokën.

Albanian for Albania:

Gjitha yjët rreth hënës shum' së bukura
Përsëri, shoh, dritën e tyre e fshehin
Kur ajo, e plote, me argjendin e saj
Mbush këtë Tokën.

Cypriot Greek for Cyprus:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Literal
Metrical

Maltese for Malta:

L-istilel madwar il-qamar sabiħ
Darb' oħra jaħbu l-uċuħ li jleqqu
Meta l-qamar kwinta aktar minn qatt qabel jdawwal
L-Art bi-dawl fiddi.

Maltese for Malta:

Madwar il-sabiħ qamar oħra darba
Jaħbu kull id-dawl tal-uċuħhom hawn, oh,
L-istilel meta jkun hu mimli/kwinta u l-Art bil-
Fiddah idawwal.

Macedonian (Cyrillic) for North Macedonia:

О́колу убава́та месе́чина, знај,
Κри́јат по́вторно светлина́та(?) ни́вна
По́веќе од се́што, осветлу́ва таа све-
то́т, по́лна и сре́брена.

Bulgarian (Cyrillic) for Bulgaria:

О́коло краси́вата Лу́на, гле́дай,
Светлина́та им вси́чки зве́зди кри́ят
По́вече от вси́чко, света́͜ осветя́ва,
Пъ́лна и сребри́ста.

Rusyn (Cyrillic) for Serbia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Hungarian:

Újra minden csillag a Hold körül most
Rejti fényét míg a csodálatos Hold
Á, telik megtölti ezüsttel ezt a
Földet az égről.

Ukrainian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Ukraine:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Belarusian (Cyrillic) for Belarus:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Russian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Russia:

Ах/Знай! Вокру́г краси́вой луны́ све звёзды
Вид блестя́щий и́хний опе́т скрыва́ю
Е́сли све́том мир залива́ет, по́лна-
я͜ и серебри́стая.

Russian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Russia:

Ах/Знай! Вокру́г прекра́сной луны́ все звёзды
Свой блестя́щий о́блик опя́ть скрыва́ют
Е́сли она́ мир све́том <u–u>, по́лна-
я͜ и серебри́стая.

Russian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Russia:

Ах/Знай! Вокру́г прекра́сной луны́ все звёзды
Свой блестя́щий о́блик опя́ть скрыва́ют;
Све́том мир она́ залива́ет, по́лна-
я͜ и серебри́стая.

Russian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Russia:

Ах/Знай! Вокру́г прекра́сной луны́ все звёзды
Свой блестя́щий о́блик опя́ть скрыва́ют;
По́лная и са́мая я́сна сере-
брит она́ мир/зе́млю.

Russian (Cyrillic) for Moldova and Russia:

Ах/Знай! Вокру́г прекра́сной луны́ все звёзды
Свой блестя́щий о́блик опя́ть скрыва́ют;
По́лная, прея́сная, серебри́т о-
на́ на́шу зе́млю.

Icelandic for Iceland:

Stjörnurnar um fallega tunglið fela
Aftur þeirra glansandi útlitið, á
Meðan, fullt og silfurlitað, það glansar,
Bjartast, of heiminn.

English for the UK and Bosnia and Herzegovina:

All around the beautiful moon, the stars
Once again their bright shining faces hide
As it, full and silver, more than them all
Lights up the Earth.

English for the UK and Bosnia and Herzegovina:

When the wondrous full moon sparkles with silver
Up above this Earth, nothing else is brighter;
All the stars around it once more then hide their
Bright shiny faces.

Welsh for the UK:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Cada estrela toda a sua luz esconde
Se está cerca da bela luna cheia
Quando ca sua luz prateada ela
Enche a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Cada estrela, toda a sua luz esconde
Rodeada da beleza da lua cheia 🌕
E com a sua luz prateada ela
Enche a 🌎 Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Cada estrela toda sua luz esconde
Se está cerca da bela lua cheia
Quando com sua luz prateada ela
Enche a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas toda a sua luz escondem
Se estão perto da bela lua cheia
E com a sua luz prateada ela
Enche a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Cada estrela toda a sua luz esconde
Se está perto da bela lua cheia
Quando com a sua luz prateada ela
Enche a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas escondem toda a sua luz
Se estão perto da bela lua cheia
E com as suas luzes prateadas elas
Enchem a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas escondem toda a sua luz
Se estão perto da bela lua cheia
E quando com a sua luz prateada ela
Enche a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
O brilhante rosto / A brilhante cara outra vez escondem
Quando, cheia, enche a Terra da sua
Luz prateada.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
O brilhante rosto / A brilhante cara outra vez escondem
Quando, cheia, mais do que nunca enche a
Terra de prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
O brilhante rosto / A brilhante cara outra vez escondem
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
Escondem os seus rostos brilhantes
Quando, cheia, enche a Terra com a sua
Luz prateada.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Toda a estrela perto da bela Lua
o seu rosto brilhante esconde
Quando, cheia, mais do que nunca enche a
Terra de prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Toda a estrela perto da bela lua
Novamente esconde o brilhante rosto
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
Novamente escondem a luz do rosto
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Toda a ‘strela perto da bela lua
’Sconde do seu rosto a luz novamente
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas perto da bela lua
Seus brilhantes rostos de novo escondem
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Toda a estrela perto da bela lua
Novamente esconde a luz do rosto
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Toda a ‘strela perto da bela lua
Novamente ‘sconde a luz do seu rosto
Quando, cheia, enche de prata a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas junto à Lua
Escondem a luz do seu rosto
Sempre que bela, cheia
Ilumina a Terra de prata

Portuguese for Portugal:

As estrelas em torno da bela lua
Novamente escondem o aspecto brilhante
Quando, cheia, mais do que nunca / mais do que qualquer outra coisa ilumina,
Prateada, a Terra.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua ‘scondem a luz do rosto
As estrelas <7 syllables missing from the line> OR Novamente as ‘strelas <5 syllables>
Sempre que de prata ilumina a Terra,
Cheia e tão bela.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua ‘scondem a luz do rosto
As estrelas sempre que, cheia e bela,
Mais que qualquer coisa de prata a Terra
Ela ilumina.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua ‘scondem a luz do rosto
As estrelas sempre que, cheia e bela,
Da sua prata ela ilumina a Terra
Mais do que nunca.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua escondem as estrelas
O seu aspecto outrora tão brilhante
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina e deixa só
A Terra em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Mira! Junto à Lua outra vez as ‘strelas
Outra vez escondem a luz do aspecto
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Novamente em torno da Lua as ‘strelas
Esse aspecto outrora brilhante escondem
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Vê! Junto à Lua outra vez as 'strelas
O seu aspecto outrora tão brilhante
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

O seu aspecto outrora tão brilhante
Vê! Junto à Lua outra vez as 'strelas
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua - vê! - outra vez as ‘strelas.
‘scondem esse/o aspecto brilhante outrora
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Vê! Junto à Lua outra vez as 'strelas
Desta sua luz escondem/ocultam o brilhante
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua - vê! - outra vez as ‘strelas.
‘scondem o brilhante da sua luz / Desta sua luz escondem o brilhante
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Vê! Junto à Lua outra vez as 'strelas
Lá, de novo ocultam sua forma luminosa
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Junto à Lua bela outra vez as ‘strelas -> Junto à Lua bela de novo as ‘strelas
O brilhante da sua luz escondem -> O brilhante da sua luz ocultam
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Quão brilhante é a luz das estrelas, que elas
‘Scondem outra vez junto à bela Lua
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Quão brilhante é a luz das estrelas! E elas
Junto à bela Lua novamente / de novo a ‘scondem
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Quão brilhante é o rosto da Lua bela
Que de novo deixa ‘sconder as ‘strelas / faz ocultar as 'strelas
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a só em prata.

Portuguese for Portugal:

Quão brilhante é o rosto da Lua bela
Que de novo deixa ‘sconder as ‘strelas
Quando ela, cheia, ilumina a Terra e
Deixa-a em prata.

Catalan for Andorra:

Al voltant de la bella luna amaguen
Les estrelles la seva llum de nou;
Plena e platejada, ella més que res il-
lumina el mont.

Latin for the Vatican:

Asterēs pulchram prope lūnam ipsī
Occulant lūcem facie͞i suæpte;
Plēna, terram lūce potissimē͜ argen-
tōque inundat.

French for France, Monaco, and Belgium:

Les étoiles autour de la lune si belle
Cachent une autre fois leurs radieux visages
Maint'nant qu'elle est pleine et d' rayons d'argent em-
plit toute la terre.

German for Liechtenstein, Germany, and Austria:

Um den schönen Mond ihr Gesicht verdecken
Und ihr Licht noch wieder die Sterne, wie er
Voll und silberfarben, mit Strahlen Lichtes
Füllet die Erde.

Dutch for Belgium and the Netherlands:

Om de schoone maan hun gezicht versteken
Nu de sterren nogmaals, terwijl de volle
Maan met zilver licht onze hele wereld
Vult, helder schijnen.

Upper Sorbian for Germany:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Faroese for Denmark:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Swedish for Sweden:

Stjärnorna nu runt om den sköna månen
Gömmar ljuset klart sitt en annan gång, då,
Full och silvrig, den över världen skiner,
Ljusast på himlen.

Estonian for Estonia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Lithuanian for Lithuania:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Silesian for Poland:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

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Czech for the Czech republic:

Hvězdy opět teď všechny kolem měsíce
Své schovávají světlo, teď kdy, krásný,
Úplněk svět náš zaplnit se stříbr-
ným světlem, ó, svým.

Czech for the Czech republic:

Hvězdy kol Měsíce opět světlý svůj
Tvář schovávají, pokud úplněk svět
Stříbrným světlem zaplní, i svítí
V obloze, krásný.

Slovene for Slovenia:

Zvézde znóva ókoli lépe lúne
Skrívajo svoj síjoč obráz ko sije,
Polna in srebŕna, nad Zémljo nášo,
Bolj kot karkóli.

Ruthenian (Latin) for Croatia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

BCMS (Latin) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Okolo di̱vnoga mjese̱ca zvije̱zde
Iznova skriju svetlucav svo̱j li̱k
Kada god o̱n pun pona̱jjače sja̱
Svud po zemlji posrebrenoj.

BCMS (Latin) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Sve zvije̱zde mje̱sece bli̱zu kra̱snog
Svetlucav svo̱j li̱k kriju͜ ope̱t, kad o̱n, pun
I srebren, tu/tu̱ zemlju popli̱vi ra̱ža-
ma svetlosti svog.

BCMS (Latin) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Sve zvije̱zde u blizini mjese̱ca
Kra̱snoga svo̱j svetlo ope̱t kriju sve
Kad, pun i srebren, popuni̱ svetla zra-
kom našu zemlju.

BCMS (Latin) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Sve zvije̱zde u blizini mjese̱ca
Kra̱snoga svo̱j svetlo ope̱t kriju sve
Kad, pun i srebren, puni o̱n svetla zra-
kom našu zemlju.

BCMS (Latin) for Croatia, Bosnia&H, Montenegro, Serbia:

Sve zvije̱zde u blizini mjese̱ca
Kra̱snoga svoje svetlo͜ ope̱t kriju sve
Kad, pun, o̱n srebra zrakama prepla̱vi̱
Tu̱ našu zemlju.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στην όμορφη σελήνη
Τη λαμπρή τους οψη αποκρύπτουν πάλι
Οτι ολόγιομη, αργυρή προπαντός τη
Γη καταλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι πάλι
Αποκρύπτουν τ' άστρα το φως των όψεων,
Όταν, αργυρό και γεμάτο, προπαν-
τός στη γη λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Αποκρύπτουν όλο το φως των πάλι
Όταν, αργυρό και γεμάτο, προπαν-
τός στη γη λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Όταν, αργυρό και γεμάτο, προπαν-
τός στη γη λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν, γεμάτο, με τ' αργυρό του φως τη
Γη καταλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν, γεμάτο, λάμπει στη γη προπάντων,
Όλο ασημένιο.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν στη γη προπάντων, γεμάτο κι αση-
μένιο, προλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Όταν, αργυρό, προπαντός στη γη, γε-
μάτο, αυτό λάμπει

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν, ολόγιομο κι αργυρό, προπάντων,
Αχ, στη γη λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Προπαντός, γεμάτο και αργυρό, τη
Γη καταλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος·
Αργυρό κι ολόγιομο, προπαντός τη
Γη καταλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν, γεμάτο κι ασημοκαπνισμένο,
Λάμπει στον κόσμο.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν προπάντων λάμπει στη γη, γεμάτο
Και ασημένιο.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν, γεμάτο κι αργυρό, προπαντός τη
Γη καταλάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν πάνω απ' τη γη προπαντός, γεμάτο,
Κι αργυρό, λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Αν προπάντων πάνω απ' τη γη, γεμάτο,
Κι αργυρό, λάμπει.

Modern Greek for Greece:

Τ' άστρα γύρω στ' όμορφο το φεγγάρι
Πάλι κρύβουν το φωτεινό των είδος
Όταν προπαντός τη γη καταλάμπει, ο-
λόγιομο κι αργυρό.

Turkish for Cyprus:

Simli dolunay her zamankinden çok
Dünyanın üzerinde parladığında
Yıldızlar ışıltılarıyla tekrar
Gizleniyorlar.

Gheg Albanian for Kosovo and Montenegro:

Ujet të tân' rreth hânës shum' së buk'ra,
Shoh, e fshehin prap' drit'n e tyre e tâne
Kur ajo, e plote, me rrgjandin e saj
Mmush ktê Tok'n neve.

Macedonian (Latin) for North Macedonia:

Ókolu ubaváta(?) meséčina, znaj,
Kríjat póvtorno svetlináta(?) nívna.
Póveḱe od séšto, osvetlúva taa sve-
tot, pólna i srébrena.

Bulgarian (Latin) for Bulgaria:

Ókolo krasívata lúna, glédaj,
Svetlináta im vsíčki zvézdi kríjat;
Póveče ot vsíčko, svetót osvetjáva,
Pëlna i srebrísta.

Rusyn (Latin) for Serbia:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Romanian for Romania and Moldova:

Stelele în jurul frumoasei lunii
Iar ascund aspectul strălucitor lor;
Plină ș-argintată, iluminează
Lumea mai mult de orice.

Ukrainian (Latin) for Moldova and Ukraine:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Belarusian (Latin) for Belarus:

Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν
Ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,
Ὄπποτα πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃ
ἀργυρία γᾶν.

Russian (Latin) for Moldova and Russia:

Ax/Znaj! Vokrýg krasívoj luný svĵe zvĵózdy
Vid blĵestĵáśij íxnij opĵét skryváĵu
Ĵésli svĵétom mir zaliváĵet, pólna-
ĵa͜ i sĵerĵebrístaĵa.

Russian (Latin) for Moldova and Russia:

Ax/Znaj! Vokrýg prĵekrásnoj luný vsĵe zvĵózdy
Svoj blĵestĵáśśij óblik opĵát' skryváĵut;
Svĵétom mir oná zaliváĵet, pólna-
ĵa͜ i sĵerĵebrístaĵa.

Russian (Latin) for Moldova and Russia:

Ax/Znaj! Vokrýg prĵekrásnoj luný vsĵe zvĵózdy
Svoj blĵestĵáśśij óblik opĵát' skryváĵut;
Pólnaĵa i sámaĵa ĵásna sĵerĵe-
brít oná mir/zĵémlĵu.

Russian (Latin) for Moldova and Russia:

Ax/Znaj! Vokrýg prĵekrásnoj luný vsĵe zvĵózdy
Svoj blĵestĵáśśij óblik opĵát' skryváĵut;
Pólnaĵa, prĵeĵásnaĵa, sĵerĵebrít o-
ná nášu zĵémlĵu.