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Gongyla

also: Γογγύλα, ΓΟΓΓΥΛΑ (parchment)

A girl of Sappho's circle, named on the fourth page of the Berlin parchment (fr. 95); ancient testimony makes her one of Sappho's companions, from Colophon. In the fragment her name stands just before a vision or sign and the wish to die.

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Fragments of Book Five poem · 1 mention

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