Espere panta pherôn, osa phainolis eskedas Auôs,
Phereis aiga, phereis oïn, phereis apu mâteri paida.
This is the Lesbian (Aeolian) text of the above fragment by Sappho, an inspiration to poets of all ages, and which differs from the Attic (the standard form of classical Greek) in several respects: