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Sardis

also: Σάρδεις, Σαρδ- (parchment trace)

Capital of Lydia, across the water from Lesbos — the great inland city to which the woman of fr. 96 has gone. Its luxury and its distance are both inside the poem: she shines among Lydian women, and Night carries her cry back across the sea.

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