… to speak [these words] …

                                      … my tongue …

                                                         … forges fierce tales …

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Previously known from the very damaged Oxyrhynchus papyrus, P.Oxy 1231 (18LP). The most readable part of the text offers the left-hand side of a poem in which, as in other fragments, the poet appears to celebrate her poetic art. See also Section VIII.

See also No. 89 (188LP)