The third and fourth books of the Alexandrian Sappho survive at two extremes of fortune. Book Three, built on the long line called the greater asclepiad, is down to a handful of quotations — but the grammarians and moralists who did the quoting had a good eye, and among the five printed here are two of her most quoted sentences: the curse on the woman with no share in the roses of Pieria, who will die and be forgotten because she made nothing, and the garland-poem for Dica, in which the Graces themselves prefer the flowered to the bare. Book Four is the opposite case: almost nothing quoted, one papyrus roll — and in that roll, a poem with the best recovery story in Sappho. In 1922 the Oxyrhynchus excavators published a column of torn line-endings: someone’s knees would no longer dance, someone’s hair had gone white, and Tithonus was named, the man whom Dawn loved and carried off, for whom she forgot to ask eternal youth to go with eternal life. In 2004 a Cologne papyrus of the third century BC — the oldest manuscript of Sappho known — was found to carry the beginnings of the same twelve lines, and the two ruins, eight decades and two thousand kilometers apart, closed over each other into a nearly whole poem on growing old. It is printed here from both witnesses: the Oxyrhynchus portions as the 1922 editors gave them, the Cologne portions as bare papyrus text, the still-missing openings left open rather than filled with any modern editor’s guesses. Around it stand the torn verses that came before and after it in the Oxyrhynchus roll — Sappho declaring that she loves delicacy, and that love has won her the brightness and beauty of the sun — and, as an addendum, the seven verses that precede the poem in the Cologne roll, in which an aging singer with her lyre hopes for honor below the earth as she had it above. Each fragment is printed under its standard Lobel-Page / Voigt number with its preserving source noted, so every scrap is citable. The same roll yielded some forty further scraps of a few letters each (frr. 59-80 and 83-90 in the standard numbering); they are deferred to a later pass rather than printed badly, and the gap is left visible on purpose.